Description: This volume reveals how these vigorous debates and competing rival visions defined the early American republic in the formative epoch after the revolution.
Review Quotes:
Gish and Bibby should be credited not only for bringing together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to tackle big ideas at the center of the American founding, but also for producing a coherent, tight volume. It is impossible to come away from this set of essays without taking seriously Gish and Bibby's idea that 'rival visions' of the United States were truly constitutive of the nation. What is more, the book makes clear that the founders' 'rival visions' continue to reverberate in scholars' compelling--and necessarily competing--interpretations.
--Matthew Rainbow Hale, Goucher College