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Title

Representation in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood.

Author

Wood, Gordon S.

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

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Description

xi, 103 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"From one of America's most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Written immediately after the completion of Wood's The Creation of the American Republic, this book elaborates on issues also explored in that work."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Jamestown essays on representation

Uniform Title

Jamestown essays on representation.

Subject

• Representative government and representation
• United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-95) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Virtual representation -- The explicitness of consent -- Democracy in the mixed republics -- The disintegration of representation -- The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists on representative government -- The end of classical politics.

ISBN

• 9780813927220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813927226 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008002957

OCLC

191318061

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library