The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
by Drew R. McCoy
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By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.Tags
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- Canonical title
- The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
- People/Characters
- John Adams; Benjamin Franklin; Alexander Hamilton; Hume, David, 1711-1776; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison (show all 7); Adam Smith
- Dedication
- For MY Parents
- First words
- Contemporary Americans all too ofteh presume an unjustified familiarity with their Revolutionary forbears.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Whether this challenge has been successfully met-and the spirit of Madison's republican revolution vindicated-are questions that must now bear on the conscience of their heirs to his republican tradition. Surely Madison would no longer permit them the luxury of regarding his crisis as prospective.
- Blurbers
- Segall, Barrie
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Economics, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 320.9 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political situation and conditions
- LCC
- HC105 .M235 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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