Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

The imaginary put to use by those discussed in this book ties together bodies of knowledge—historic and current, academic and popular, economic and cultural—in an attempt to create a transnational working reality that makes sense.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

William Leggett (1801-1839) was the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy.