Launching the "Extended Republic"
Subtitle: The Federalist Era (Perspectives on the American Revolution)
Contributors: Ronald Hoffman (Editor); Peter J. Albert (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780813916248
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Political structure & processes; U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); U.S. Political History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - Revolutionary War; 1789-1809; Politics and government; United States
Description: The essays in this volume explore some of the potentially divisive realities that characterized the Federalist Era. Nine distinguished authors address themes that include the ideological assumptions that fueled the political debate, the interrelated character of social and political history, the role of the courts as an emerging force in arbitrating and containing conflict, and the expansionist impulses that pushed the new nation's borders westward. Gordon S.

Wood introduces the collection with an incisive overview of the bold ambitions and unfulfilled aspirations of the critical first decade of the United States.