Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the Us Constitution

ISBN-13: 9780197534717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Max Edling

Recenzje

In this bracing new study, historian Max Edling shows how the US Constitution was not intended primarily as a solution to internal problems within the states but as a means of addressing intractable problems between the states, with foreign nations, and with Native Americans in the west. Abandoning the stultifying dichotomy between 'progressive vs. conservative' that has constricted scholarly debate for decades, Edling restores the Constitution to its true historical context.

O autorze

Max M. Edling is Reader in Early American History at the King's College, London. He is the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: The Origin of the US Constitution and the Making of the American State and A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867.