From Independence to the U.S. Constitution
Reconsidering the Critical Period of American History
The Critical Period of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of times or the worst of times. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, which, according to them, saved the Revolution, others have bemoaned that the Constitution's framers destroyed the liberating tendencies of the Revolution, betrayed debtors, made a bargain with slavery, and handed the country over to the wealthy.This era—what John Fiske introduced in 1880 as America's Critical Period—has rarely been separated from the U…
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Weitere Autoren: Pearl, Christopher R. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8139-4743-3
- EAN: 9780813947433
- Produktnummer: 37939177
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 4 b&w illus.
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Edited by Douglas Bradburn and Christopher R. Pearl
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