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050		4	_aE210 _b.R34 2019
100	1		_aRakove, Jack N., _d1947- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Beginnings of National Politics _bAn Interpretive History of the Continental Congress / _cJack N. Rakove.
250			_aOpen access edition.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (unpaged.)
490	0		_aHopkins open publishing encore editions
500			_aOriginally published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_apart 1. Resistance and revolution : resistance without union, 1770-1774 -- The creation of a mandate -- The First Continental Congress -- War and politics, 1775-1776 -- Independence -- A lengthening war -- part 2. Confederation : confederation considered -- Confederation drafted -- The beginnings of national government -- Ambition and responsibility : an essay on revolutionary politics -- part 3. Crises : factional conflict and foreign policy -- A government without money -- The administration of Robert Morris -- part 4. Reform : union without power : the confederation in peacetime -- Toward the Philadelphia Convention.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aDespite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with national--and international--authority. 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 congressional decisions on matters as prosaic as military logistics or as abstract as the definition of federalism.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bContinental Congress.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1783-1789.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1775-1783.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z1421430983 _z9781421430980
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aHopkins open publishing encore editions.
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/67880/
999			_c25609 _d25609