The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (New American Nation Series) - Softcover

Morris, Richard B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060914246 ISBN 13: 9780060914240

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1988

Synopsis

Looks at the history of the United States during the period between the end of the Revolution and the establishment of the federal government, and discusses the country's economic and social conditions

About this title

From Library Journal:

Morris surveys the much neglected Confederation period, viewing it as a critical time defined by political experimentation, free enterprise values, and inequality. He deals with such standard political issues as the Northwest Ordinance and the establishment of the Confederation government and the state constitutions. He also tackles demographic, ethnic, and social topics as well as the economic tangle of postwar indebtedness and the aftermath of wartime finances, which led to postwar depression and Shay's Rebellion in New England. The study ends with the Federal Constitution and its ratification. Though unearthing little new information, Morris offers a worthwhile synthesis to both generalists and scholars and updates Merrill Jensen's The New Nation (1950). David Szatmary, Continuing Education, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Columbia University historian Morris's exhaustively researched history is a sequel to his Bancroft Prizewinning The Peacemakers. Here he chronicles the dissensions and debates of the troubled period when, having won independence from George III's England, unpaid revolutionary soldiers straggled home to economic depression and chaos in their respective colonies. Morris provides a superbly revealing description of the fiscal and political problems that led Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hancock, a recalcitrant Patrick Henry and other leaders to convene in Philadelphia to establish a constitution and a lasting Union. Photos.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0060914246
• ISBN 13: 9780060914240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430