Title: The forging of the Union, 1781-1789
First published: 1987
Description: Covering the crucial years from the winning of independence to the creation of the federal government, The Forging of the Union may be considered a sequel to Richard B. Morris's Bancroft Award-winning book, The Peacemakers. Reexamining an enormous fund of original sources and the latest monographs, Morris treats the Confederation interlude as an extraordinary, if brief, period of trial and experimentation. Grave doubts were entertained on a wide variety of issues: the survival of an American union, perpetuation of republican values, the power of a strengthened central government to deal with the great European states, prosperity, sectional tensions, and secessionist murmurings. Would a durable union in fact perpetuate a government by the elite to the detriment of the common people? - Back cover.
Subjects: Politics and government, Constitutional history, Constitutions, Constitution, United States, Politique et gouvernement, Histoire constitutionnelle, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, United states, history, 1783-1809, Constitutional law
Places: United States, UnitedStates
Time periods: 1783-1789
LC classification: E303 .M884 1987