Gentlemen Revolutionaries - Power and Justice in the New American Republic - Tom Cutterham - Paperback Bog - Princeton University Press - 2020 -
Brand: Princeton University Press
Description
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen-the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite-worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped
