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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Joseph O'Lalor |
ISBN: | 9780615121147 0615121144 |
OCLC Number: | 231842869 |
Description: | ix, 336 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The foundation of colonial America: Pertpetuating freedom and justice -- European heritage and civil government: The virtues of custom, law, and liberty -- Revolution, confederation and the constitution: Social progress and civil government -- The nature and form of the federal republic: Political economy and republican virtue -- The foundation of Hamilton's vision: The power of authority -- Hamilton as secretary of the treasury: The financing of his vision -- Utility and the prime end of all law: Civic excellence vs. republican virtue -- Ancient dilemmas and modern virtues: Capitalism's impact upon republican virtue. |
Responsibility: | Peter Joseph O' Lalor. |
Abstract:
"The main body of this work explores the heritage of republican virtue upon which the nascent capitalism of the 1790's had a tremendous impact. It is not a critique of capitalism's worth, value, or benetit. It does however, inquire as to whether those advocates of capitalism, in the late eighteenth-century honored or dishonored their republican heritage."--Foreword [p. xiv]
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