 | The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776–1850 Subjects: Representative government and representation -- United States -- History; Federal government -- United States -- History; State governments -- History; Using concepts of historical geography, Rosemarie Zagarri examines how Americans' notions about space influenced the writing of the U.S. Constitution and the shaping of the nation's political institutions. Rosemarie Zagarri is Professor of History at George Mason University. She is the author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic and A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution and the editor of David Humphreys' "Life of General Washington" with George Washington's "Remarks." |
