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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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Phiên bản: | Open access edition. |
| Loạt: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
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Mục lục:
- 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.