A Planters' Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia

by Bruce A. Ragsdale

Confronted by an increasingly restrictive imperial policy and mounting debt with England, Virginians envisioned the development of an independent economy safe from the constraits of parliamentary regulation and the influence of British merchants.

Throughout the revolutionary era, from the earliest resistance to imperial policy in the 1760s to the debate on ratification of the Federal Constitution in 1788, Virginians pursued a vision of economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945612400
• ISBN13: 9780945612407
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"