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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464308103321

Autore

McCoy Drew R.

Titolo

The elusive Republic : political economy in Jeffersonian America / / Drew R. McCoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1980

ISBN

0-8078-3832-2

1-4696-0053-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

320.9/73/046

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions To 1865

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

United States Politics and government 1809-1817

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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