Max M. Edling is professor of early American history at King’s College London.

• Acknowledgments  Introduction: War, Money, and American History1.         A More Effectual Mode of Administration: The Constitution and the Origins of American Public Finance2.         The Soul of Government: Creating an American Fiscal Regime3.         So Immense a Power in the Affairs of War: The Restoration of Public Credit4.         Equal to the Severest Trials: Mr. Madison’s War5.         The Two Most Powerful Republics in the World: Mr. Polk’s War6.         A Rank among the Very First of Military Powers: Mr. Lincoln’s WarConclusion: The Ideology, Structure, and Significance of the First American Fiscal Regime  NotesIndex

“I consider Edling one of the finest historians of the early American republic in the world today. A Hercules in the Cradle will revolutionize the way historians think about the founding and development of the federal state—a state with the capacity to fulfill the expanding new empire's ‘manifest destiny.’”

Max M. Edling is professor of early American history at King’s College London.

• Acknowledgments  Introduction: War, Money, and American History1.         A More Effectual Mode of Administration: The Constitution and the Origins of American Public Finance2.         The Soul of Government: Creating an American Fiscal Regime3.         So Immense a Power in the Affairs of War: The Restoration of Public Credit4.         Equal to the Severest Trials: Mr. Madison’s War5.         The Two Most Powerful Republics in the World: Mr. Polk’s War6.         A Rank among the Very First of Military Powers: Mr. Lincoln’s WarConclusion: The Ideology, Structure, and Significance of the First American Fiscal Regime  NotesIndex

“I consider Edling one of the finest historians of the early American republic in the world today. A Hercules in the Cradle will revolutionize the way historians think about the founding and development of the federal state—a state with the capacity to fulfill the expanding new empire's ‘manifest destiny.’”

Max M. Edling is professor of early American history at King’s College London.

• Acknowledgments  Introduction: War, Money, and American History1.         A More Effectual Mode of Administration: The Constitution and the Origins of American Public Finance2.         The Soul of Government: Creating an American Fiscal Regime3.         So Immense a Power in the Affairs of War: The Restoration of Public Credit4.         Equal to the Severest Trials: Mr. Madison’s War5.         The Two Most Powerful Republics in the World: Mr. Polk’s War6.         A Rank among the Very First of Military Powers: Mr. Lincoln’s WarConclusion: The Ideology, Structure, and Significance of the First American Fiscal Regime  NotesIndex

“I consider Edling one of the finest historians of the early American republic in the world today. A Hercules in the Cradle will revolutionize the way historians think about the founding and development of the federal state—a state with the capacity to fulfill the expanding new empire's ‘manifest destiny.’”