| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Early American Histories
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Early American histories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Contents |
The Constitutional Consequences of Commercial Crisis: The Role of Trade Reconsidered in the Critical Period / Dael A. Norwood -- America's Court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Critical Period / Douglas Bradburn -- Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Before and after Ratification / Nicholas P. Wood -- Federalism on the Frontier: Secession and Loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West / Susan Gaunt Stearns -- "Such a Spirit of Innovation": The American Revolution and the Creation of States / Christopher R. Pearl -- Something from Nothing? Currency and Finance in the Critical Period / Hannah Farber -- An Excess of Aristocracy: Democracy and the Fear of Aristocratic Power in the 1780s / Kevin Butterfield -- Epilogue: Turn Down the Volume! / Johann N. Neem. |
| Summary |
"This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the Revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Confederation of the United States (1783-1789) |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Confederation, 1783-1789.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1783 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809.
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| Chronological Term |
1783-1809 |
| Subject |
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1809 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Bradburn, Douglas, 1972- editor.
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Pearl, Christopher R., 1983- editor.
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| Added Title |
Reconsidering the critical period of American history |
| Other Form: |
Print version: From independence to the U.S. Constitution Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813947419 (DLC) 2021047917 |
| ISBN |
9780813947433 electronic book |
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081394743X electronic book |
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9780813947419 hardcover |
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9780813947426 paperback |
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