“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.”—Social Studies

“An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study.”—Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review

• Contents 
• Author's Foreword
• Prefaces
• THE REVOLUTIONARY BACKGROUND
• I 
• The Problem of Interpretation
• II 
• The Internal Revolution
• III 
• Independence and Internal Revolution, 1774–1776
• THE WRITING AND RATIFICATION OF THE ARTICLES
• IV 
• The Problem of Union
• V 
• The Dickinson Draft of the Confederation
• VI 
• The Solution of the Major Issues
• VII 
• The Problem of Sovereignty
• VIII 
• The Completion of the Articles
• IX 
• Early Reaction and Ratification
• X 
• Virginia and the Western Problem, 1778–1770
• XI 
• Congress and the Western Problem: Land Speculation and the Spanish Alliance
• XII 
• The Completion of the Confederation
• XIII 
• Conclusions
• APPENDIX
• Progress of the Articles through Congress
• The Dickinson Draft of the Confederation
• The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
• Index

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