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The elusive Republic

by Drew R. McCoy
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Overview

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.

About the Author, Drew R. McCoy

Drew R. McCoy, Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor of History at Clark University, is author of The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy.

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From the Publisher

[Enlarges] our understanding of early American history and gives us a perspective from which to see the deficiencies of the republic today.

Virginia Quarterly Review

Filled with insights that a summary cannot begin to mention and argued with uncommon force, economy, and grace.

Journal of American History

An imaginative and well-written book that will be necessary reading for all American historians concerned with the post-Revolutionary period.

Journal of Economic History

The Elusive Republic offers insights into the complex relationships between ideology and social change, between tradition and modernity.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Book Details

Published
December 1, 1980
Publisher
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press, c1980.
Pages
268
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807814161

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