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Coles After the king departed: How thirteen colonies invented a government from scratch and barely held together at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Between the surrender at Yorktown and the ratification of the Constitution lay six years of near-collapse. The American Revolution had destroyed British authority but created nothing to replace it. States printed their own money, raised their own armies, and negotiated separately with foreign powers. Congress could not pay its soldiers, who threatened to march on Philadelphia. Farmers in Massachusetts took up arms against their own state government. This book does not recount battles or debates over representation. Instead, it examines the practical crisis of building a national government when no one agreed on what a nation was. Drawing on treasury records, legislative journals, correspondence among state governors, and the private papers of figures like Robert Morris and James Madison, it reconstructs the daily grind of governance without power: how the army was fed, how debts were managed, how quarrels between states over rivers and borders were adjudicated, and how the idea of a federal union survived its own weakness. The Constitution was not a philosophical triumph. It was a desperate compromise born from the realization that without a stronger center, the Revolution would end not in independence but in fragmentation. The book shows that nation-building was not a bold act of creation but a patchwork of improvisations, failures, and last-minute bargains.
Between the surrender at Yorktown and the ratification of the Constitution lay six years of near-collapse. The American Revolution had destroyed British authority but created nothing to replace it. States printed their own money, raised their own armies, and negotiated separately with foreign powers. Congress could not pay its soldiers, who threatened to march on Philadelphia. Farmers in Massachusetts took up arms against their own state government. This book does not recount battles or debates over representation. Instead, it examines the practical crisis of building a national government when no one agreed on what a nation was. Drawing on treasury records, legislative journals, correspondence among state governors, and the private papers of figures like Robert Morris and James Madison, it reconstructs the daily grind of governance without power: how the army was fed, how debts were managed, how quarrels between states over rivers and borders were adjudicated, and how the idea of a federal union survived its own weakness. The Constitution was not a philosophical triumph. It was a desperate compromise born from the realization that without a stronger center, the Revolution would end not in independence but in fragmentation. The book shows that nation-building was not a bold act of creation but a patchwork of improvisations, failures, and last-minute bargains.
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