The emerging nation : a documentary history of the foreign relations of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, 1780-1789 / Mary A. Giunta, editor-in-chief ; J. Dane Hartgrove, associate editor ; Norman A. Graebner, Peter P. Hill, Lawrence S. Kaplan, consulting editors ; Richard B. Smith, project publication specialist ; Mary-Jane M. Dowd, editor and project director.

A collection of diplomatic dispatches, treaties, private letters, and other documents providing insight into the beginnings of United States foreign policy.