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In this book, Bailyn discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of national government and the original principles of the revolution.
In this book, Bailyn discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of national government and the original principles of the revolution.
This discussion of the social order of an agricultural republic is Taylor's most popular and influential work. It includes materials on the relation of agriculture to the American economy, on agriculture and politics, and on the enemies of the agrarian republic. Both statesman a…
The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natu…
The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natu…
The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natu…
"Presents an alternative informational theory of legislative politics to challenge the conventional view."--Publisher
"By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own concepts, and assumptions - Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era."--Jacket.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was at most a second-rank power. By the beginning of the twentieth century, almost everyone acknowledged it to be one of the world's great powers. This book tells the story of that transition. First publish in 1961, it is still th…