From independence to the U.S. Constitution : reconsidering the critical period of American history /
Reconsidering the critical period of American history
edited by Douglas Bradburn and Christopher R. Pearl.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations
- Early American Histories .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Constitutional Consequences of Commercial Crisis: The Role of Trade Reconsidered in the Critical Period / America's Court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Critical Period / Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Before and after Ratification / Federalism on the Frontier: Secession and Loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West / "Such a Spirit of Innovation": The American Revolution and the Creation of States / Something from Nothing? Currency and Finance in the Critical Period / An Excess of Aristocracy: Democracy and the Fear of Aristocratic Power in the 1780s / Epilogue: Turn Down the Volume! / Dael A. Norwood -- Douglas Bradburn -- Nicholas P. Wood -- Susan Gaunt Stearns -- Christopher R. Pearl -- Hannah Farber -- Kevin Butterfield -- Johann N. Neem.
"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"--