Rakove The Beginnings of National Politics

An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3098-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rakove, Jack N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rakove, Jack N.
Jack N. Rakove teaches history at Stanford University.