The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election."--Social Studies "An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review |
Contents
The Problem of Interpretation | 3 |
The Internal Revolution | 16 |
Independence and Internal Revolution 17741776 | 54 |
The Problem of Union | 107 |
The Dickinson Draft of the Confederation | 126 |
The Solution of the Major Issues | 140 |
The Problem of Sovereignty | 161 |
The Completion of the Articles | 177 |
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