Economic Conditions in the United States, American Colonial History - General & Miscellaneous, U.S. Politics & Government - 1607 - 1811, U.S. Politics & Government - 1812 - 1860, 19th Century American History - Politics & Government - General & Miscellane
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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.Editorials
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