Beginnings of National Politics An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress

Name: Beginnings of National Politics An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress
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ISBN: 9780801828645

ISBN-10: 0801828643

ISBN-13: 9780801828645

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Jack N. Rakove

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jack N. Rakove is the William R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prizeï¿½e"winning Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.