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1 online resource (373 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. The enduring issues of the American Revolution, 1776-1815 -- The problem of power: parties, aristocracy, and democracy in revolutionary thought -- Part II. Republicanism, liberalism, and the great transition -- Jeffersonian ideology revisited: liberal and classical ideas in the new American republic -- The Republican interpretation: retrospect and prospect -- Some second thoughts on virtue and the course of revolutionary thinking -- Quid transit? Paradigms and process in the transformation of Republican ideas -- Part III. The Constitution -- The Constitutional Convention -- The Federalist Papers -- 1787 and 1776: Patrick Henry, James Madison, the Constitution, and the Revolution -- Part IV. James Madison -- James Madison and the nationalists, 1780-1783 -- The Hamiltonian Madison: a reconsideration -- The practicable sphere of a republic: James Madison, the Constitutional Convention, and the emergence of revolutionary federalism -- Part V. The first party conflict -- Political economy and the creation of the federal republic -- The Jeffersonians: first principles. |
| Summary |
Lance Banning was one of the most distinguished historians of his generation. His first book, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, was a groundbreaking study of the ideas and principles that influenced political conflict in the early American Republic. His revisionist masterpiece, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, received the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Banning was assembling this collection of his best and most repres. |
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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1700-1815
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Electronic books.
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Estes, Todd, 1963-
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Print version: Banning, Lance. Founding Visions : The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2014 9780813152844 |
| ISBN |
9780813152851 (electronic bk.) |
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0813152852 (electronic bk.) |
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