The Beginnings of National Politics : An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress /

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 com...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Rakove, Jack N., 1947- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
الطبعة:Open access edition.
سلاسل:Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • part 1. Resistance and revolution : resistance without union, 1770-1774
  • The creation of a mandate
  • The First Continental Congress
  • War and politics, 1775-1776
  • Independence
  • A lengthening war
  • part 2. Confederation : confederation considered
  • Confederation drafted
  • The beginnings of national government
  • Ambition and responsibility : an essay on revolutionary politics
  • part 3. Crises : factional conflict and foreign policy
  • A government without money
  • The administration of Robert Morris
  • part 4. Reform : union without power : the confederation in peacetime
  • Toward the Philadelphia Convention.