The beginnings of national politics : an interpretive history of the Continental Congress

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The beginnings of national politics : an interpretive history of the Continental Congress

Jack N. Rakove

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, c1979

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1979

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Originally published in 1982. Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with national-and international-authority. How the Congress acquired and maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal government are the issues confronted in Jack N. Rakove's searching reappraisal of Revolution-era politics. Avoiding the tendency to interpret the decisions of the Congress in terms of competing factions or conflicting ideologies, Rakove opts for a more pragmatic view. He reconstructs the political climate of the Revolutionary period, mapping out both the immediate problems confronting the Congress and the available alternatives as perceived by the delegates. He recreates a landscape littered with unfamiliar issues, intractable problems, unattractive choices, and partial solutions, all of which influenced congressional decisions on matters as prosaic as military logistics or as abstract as the definition of federalism.

目次

Acknowledgments Preface Part I. Resistance and Revolution Chapter 1. Resistance Without Union, 1770-1774 Chapter 2. The Creation of a Mandate Chapter 3. The First Continental Congress Chapter 4. War and Politics, 1775-1776 Chapter 5. Independence Chapter 6. A Lengthening War Part II. Confederation Chapter 7. Confederation Considered Chapter 8. Confederation Drafted Chapter 9. The Beginnings of National Government Chapter 10. Ambition and Responsibility: An Essay on Revolutionary Politics Part III. Crises Chapter 11. Factional Conflict and Foreign Policy Chapter 12. A Government Without Money 2 Chapter 13. The Administration of Robert Morris 2 Part IV. Reform Chapter 14. Union Without Power: The Confederation in Peacetime Chapter 15. Toward the Philadelphia Convention Notes A Note on Primary Sources Index

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