Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The American Historical Register
Author: The American Historical Register and Monthly Gazette of the Historic, Military and Patriotic-hereditary Societies of the United States of America
Author: The American Historical Register and Monthly Gazette of the Historical, Military and Patriotic-hereditary Societies of the United States of America
Author: Charles Henry BrowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution
Author: Robert K. WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for ...
Author: The Tribune Almanac and Political Register
Author: Horace GreeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
We the People
Author: Forrest McDonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135129962X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1,750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence, Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work, while never denying economic motivation as a factor, also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness, We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians, political scientists, economists, and American studies specialists.