{"product_id":"the-beginnings-of-national-politics-9781421430584","title":"The Beginnings of National Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1982. Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with nationaland internationalauthority. How the Congress acquired and maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal government are the issues confronted in Jack N. Rakove's searching reappraisal of Revolution-era politics. Avoiding the tendency to interpret the decisions of the Congress in terms of competing factions or conflicting ideologies, Rakove opts for a more pragmatic view. He reconstructs the political climate of the Revolutionary period, mapping out both the immediate problems confronting the Congress and the available alternatives as perceived by the delegates. He recreates a landscape littered with unfamiliar issues, intractable problems, unattractive choices, and partial solutions, all of which influenced congressi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Resistance and Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Resistance Without Union, 1770-1774 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Creation of a Mandate \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The First Continental Congress \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. War and Politics, 1775-1776 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Independence \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. A Lengthening War \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Confederation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Confederation Considered \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Confederation Drafted \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Beginnings of National Government \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Ambition and Responsibility: An Essay on Revolutionary Politics \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Crises\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Factional Conflict and Foreign Policy \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Government Without Money 2\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Administration of Robert Morris 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Reform\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Union Without Power: The Confederation in Peacetime\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Toward the Philadelphia Convention \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eA Note on Primary Sources \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130285911,"sku":"9781421430584","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-beginnings-of-national-politics-9781421430584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}