"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election.

A scholarly account of the first years of the new nation that was born of the American Revolution.

"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence.

This is the fourth of five volumes documenting New York State's public and private debates about the Constitution and the calling of New York's ratifying convention; featuring newspaper items and letters, New York ratification chronologies, ...