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The “Cement of Interest”

Interest-Based Models of Nation-Building in the Early Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Stephen Minicucci
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It is by the cement of interest only,we can be held together … [Westerners] would in a few years be as unconnected with us, indeed more so, than we are with South America. … how are we to prevent this? Happily for us the way is plain, and our immediate interests, as well as remote political advantages, points to it. … Extend the inland navigation of the Eastern waters, communicate them as near as possible (by excellent Roads) with those that run to theWestward. … [We will] bind those people to us by a chain that can never be broken.

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Social Science History , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , summer 2001 , pp. 247 - 274
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2001

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