Description: "This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the Revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"--
Review Quotes:
The question of how 'critical' the decade of the 1780s was, for whom, and why, has been foundational in American history. Douglas Bradburn and Christopher Pearl have assembled a fascinating and important set of essays that will reframe this problem for a new generation, living in its own time of crisis.
--John L. Brooke, Ohio State University, author of "There Is a North" Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War