The Emergence of a National Economy : Pickering & Chatto : 9781851967506 : 01 Aug 2004 : This edition covers the period between the American Revolution and the American Civil War. This era is characterized, on one hand, by important policy debates on nation building, and on the other, by a tendency within American economics towards greater sophistication and independence from European thinking. In the immediate post-colonial period, one of the first issues of contention that arose concerned that of industrialization, or the respective roles of agriculture and manufacturing, and the parallel debate over the division of economic powers between states and the federal government. These disagreements expressed themselves in the political division between Republicans and Federalists. The individuals representing the extremes of this argument were Thomas Jefferson and George Logan on the side of agriculture and republicanism, and Alexander Hamilton on the side of industrialization and federa