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Title Beyond confederation : origins of the Constitution and American national identity / edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II
Published Chapel Hill [North Carolina] ; London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1987]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages)
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Contents pt. 1. Ideologies: The American Constitution: a revolutionary interpretation / Stanley N. Katz -- The Constitution of the thinking revolutionary / Ralph Lerner -- Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution / Gordon S. Wood -- pt. 2. Issues: Shay's Rebellion and the ratification of the federal Constitution in Massachusetts / Richard D. Brown -- Money, credit, and Federalist political economy / Janet A. Riesman -- The practical sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Conventions, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism / Lance Banning -- Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: making a covenant with death / Paul Finkelman -- James Madison and visions of American nationality in the confederation period: a regional perspective / Drew R. McCoy -- pt. 3. Aftermath: The structure of politics at the accession of George Washington / Jack N. Rakove -- The persistence of antifederalism after 1789 / Richard E. Ellis -- Religious dimensions of the early America state / Stephen Botein -- Epilogue: A roof without walls: the dilemma of American national identity / John M. Murrin
Analysis Constitutional history United States
United States Politics and government 1783-1789
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Constitutional history -- United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Constitutional history
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140414
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Beeman, Richard R., editor.
Botein, Stephen, editor.
Carter, Edward C., II, 1928-2002, editor
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), issuing body.
LC no. 86016150
ISBN 9781469601243
1469601249
Other Titles Origins of the Constitution and American national identity