The Elusive Republic Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 01 December 2012

By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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• Release Date : 01 July 2014

Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 22 June 2024

Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.

• Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
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• Release Date : 11 July 2018

Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity

• Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
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• Release Date : 05 February 2003

Historians have generally ranked John Tyler as one of the least successful chief executives, despite achievements such as the WebsterAshburton treaty, which heralded improved relations with Great Britain, and the

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 16 March 2010

Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of

• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
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• Release Date : 19 February 2019

Ultimately, the book reveals the complex link between government intervention and private initiative in a country struggling to create a political economy that balanced military competence with commercial needs.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 08 March 2018

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are 'good'.

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
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• Release Date : 03 July 2014

In the troubled days before the American Civil War, both Northern protectionists and Southern free trade economists saw political economy as the key to understanding the natural laws on which

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
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• Release Date : 22 June 2024

Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and