Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution

Herausgeber: Lynd, Staughton

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution revisits one of the first studies to identify the importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114844
• ISBN-10: 0521114845
• Artikelnr.: 26552511

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Class Conflict: 2. Who should rule at home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution
3. The tenant rising at Livingston Manor, May 1777
4. The mechanics in New York politics, 1774-1785
5. A governing class on the defensive: the case of New York
Part II. Slavery: 6. On Turner, Beard, and slavery
7. The abolitionist critique of the United States Constitution
8. The compromise of 1787
Part III. The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Historiography: 9. Abraham Yates's history of the movement for the United States Constitution
10. Beard, Jefferson, and the tree of Liberty
Afterword Robin Einhorn.