The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America

by Drew R. McCoy

Overview

By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought — an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions — Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807838327
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Series:	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Drew R. McCoy, Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor of History at Clark University, is author of The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“McCoy has both enlarged our understanding of early American history and given us a perspective from which to see the deficiencies of the republic today.” — Virginia Quarterly Review


“This superbly crafted book is both a literary treat and necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand America’s Revolutionary era. . . . Filled with insights that a summary cannot begin to mention and argued with uncommon force, economy, and grace, this volume adds a new dimension to the evolving reinterpretation of the revolutionary vision of the 1770s.” — Journal of American History


“An imaginative and well-written book that will be necessary reading for all American historians concerned with the post-Revolutionary period.” — Journal of Economic History


“McCoy’s study of the contradictions and ambivalence of republican economic thought makes an important contribution to our understanding the Revolutionary era. But its significance is much wider, for The Elusive Republic offers insights into the complex relationships between ideology and social change, between tradition and modernity.” — Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Editorial Reviews

“This superbly crafted book is both a literary treat and necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand America’s Revolutionary era. . . . Filled with insights that a summary cannot begin to mention and argued with uncommon force, economy, and grace, this volume adds a new dimension to the evolving reinterpretation of the revolutionary vision of the 1770s.” — Journal of American History

“McCoy has both enlarged our understanding of early American history and given us a perspective from which to see the deficiencies of the republic today.” — Virginia Quarterly Review

“An imaginative and well-written book that will be necessary reading for all American historians concerned with the post-Revolutionary period.” — Journal of Economic History

“McCoy’s study of the contradictions and ambivalence of republican economic thought makes an important contribution to our understanding the Revolutionary era. . . . The Elusive Republic offers insights into the complex relationships between ideology and social change, between tradition and modernity.” — Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

From the Publisher