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The beginnings of national politics : an interpretive history of the Continental Congress / Jack N. Rakove.
- Title
- The beginnings of national politics : an interpretive history of the Continental Congress / Jack N. Rakove.
- Author
- Rakove, Jack N., 1947-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, c1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E210 .R34 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 484 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1979.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1, Resistance and Revolution: Resistance Without Union, 1770-1774 -- The Creation of a Mandate -- The First Continental Congress -- War and Politics, 1775-1776 -- Independence -- A Lengthening War -- Part 2, Confederation: Confederation Considered -- Confederation Drafted -- The Beginnings of National Government -- Ambition and Responsibility: An Essay on Revolutionary Politics -- Part 3, Crises: Factional Conflict and Foreign Policy -- A Government Without Money -- The Administration of Robert Morris -- Part 4, Reform: Union Without Power: The Confederation in Peacetime -- Toward the Philadelphia Convention -- Notes -- A Note on Primary Sources -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0801828643 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^82015186^
- OCLC
- 8306656
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library