The Elusive Republic
Subtitle: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 14, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780807846162
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Political economy; United States - General; Economic History; U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - Antebellum Era; Economic conditions; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
First sentence: Sometime during the summer or early fall of 1780, as the war for independence approached its most critical juncture and Americans faced an increasingly problematic future, the secretary of the French legation in Philadelphia, Francois Marbois, initiated a chain of events that would produce an intellectual and literary landmark of the Revolutionary age.