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The elusive Republic : political economy in Jeffersonian America / Drew R. McCoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCoy, Drew R., author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
- United States--Politics and government--1809-1817.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions - Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Social Progress and Decay in Eighteenth-Century Thought; CHAPTER TWO: The Republican Revolution; CHAPTER THREE: Commerce and the Independent Republic; CHAPTER FOUR: An Uneasy Adolescence: Manufactures and the Crisis of the Eighties; CHAPTER FIVE: The Constitution: Two Visions; CHAPTER SIX: The Specter of Walpole: Republicanism at Bay; CHAPTER SEVEN: ''One Great Commercial Republic"": Commerce, Bankruptcy, and the Crisis of the Nineties; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Jeffersonians in Power: Extending the Sphere
- CHAPTER NINE: The Jeffersonians in Power: Embargo and WarCHAPTER TEN: The Republic Secured?; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908661-8-9
- 979-88-908661-9-6
- 0-8078-3832-2
- 1-4696-0053-6
- OCLC:
- 966790969
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