Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

    Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

    How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South

    By Charles A. Beard Foreword by Clyde W. Barrow

    $18.95

    Publication Date: 24th July 2017

    The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of the Constitution through the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the rise and triumph of Jefferson's agrarian, slave-holding South over the mercantile-oriented urbanism of Hamilton's North, setting the stage for the ongoing clash between rural and urban America, a topic still highly relevant in the twenty-first century.
    Beard defines the early period of American governance in terms of the conflict between agr... Read More
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    The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of the Constitution through the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the rise and triumph of Jefferson's agrarian, slave-holding South over the mercantile-oriented urbanism of Hamilton's North, setting the stage for the ongoing clash between rural and urban America, a topic still highly relevant in the twenty-first century.
    Beard defines the early period of American governance in terms of the conflict between agr... Read More