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Bruce A. Ragsdale - Planters' Republic - 9780945612407 - V9780945612407
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Planters' Republic

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Description for Planters' Republic Hardback. This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Confronted by an increasingly restrictive imperial policy and mounting debt with England, Virginians envisioned the development of an independent economy safe from the constraits of parliamentary regulation and the influence of British merchants. Throughout the revolutionary era, from the earliest resistance to imperial policy in the 1760s to the debate on ratification of the Federal Constitution in 1788, Virginians pursued a vision of economic independence that they considered a prerequisite for the liberty, security, and prosperity of their state. That vision reflected a determination to free themselves from the demands of British merchants and the restrictions of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780945612407
SKU
V9780945612407
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About Bruce A. Ragsdale
Bruce Ragsdale is chief historian, Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. He formerly served as associate historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and was co-editor of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1989). Dr. Ragsdale is author of several works on eighteenth-century Virginia and the history of the U.S. House of ... Read more

Reviews for Planters' Republic
Ragsdale provides the first well detailed synthesis of the development of economic dependence on Great Britain in a colony/state of the Upper South. . . . His interpretations are fresh and interesting. Among Ragsdale's major contributions is the explicit connection he makes between economic, political, and social ideas and practices, and his linkage of the process of transformation with race-based ... Read more

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