The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

McCoy, Drew R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807814164 ISBN 13: 9780807814161

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1980

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

"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

From the Back Cover:

By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought - an intellectual world with its own concepts, and assumptions - Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0807814164
• ISBN 13: 9780807814161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278