An Economic Interpretation of the - Softcover

Beard, Charles A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 048643365X ISBN 13: 9780486433653

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-05-20 Pages: 330 Language: English Publisher: Dover Publications This famous study - one of the most influential in the area of ??American economic history - brought a halt to Americans uncritical reverence for their countrys revolutionary past. Questioning the Founding Fathers motivations in drafting the Constitution. it viewed the results as a product of economic self-interest. Perhaps the most controversial books of its time.

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Review:

"Here again is the original constitutional skeptic to remind Americans that our republic's authors had not only intellects but interests. Charles Beard set out to jolt his contemporaries out of their pious admiration of the constitution's framers. His economic interpretation remains a lively, surprisingly humorous and sharp-witted analysis of the nation's beginnings. Reading it today, the book aims a keen and pointed thrust at the originalism of our own age." (Professor Eric Rauchway, University of California Davis Department of History)

"One hundred years after it first appeared, Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution still commands our attention as a classic of historical scholarship -- not because every view Beard put forward has stood the test of time but because the questions he raised about the intersections of economic and political power are just as relevant today as when he wrote." (Professor Eric Foner, Columbia University Department of History)

"This is the book that started us all on the journey to understanding the complex motives and conflicting interests that shaped our constitution. 100 years after its publication, it still has the power to excite and exasperate, to stir fierce debate and to inspire new interpretations." (Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Synopsis:

One of the classic revisionist histories of the 20th century, Beard's 1913 history of the economic interests that lay behind the formation of the United States Constitution is here reproduced in unabridged format. Beard first surveys the economic structure of the newly independent country and then describes the ways in which property safeguards hel

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 048643365X
• ISBN 13: 9780486433653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336