Race and the Early Republic Racial Consciousness and Nation Building in the Early Republic

Name: Race and the Early Republic Racial Consciousness and Nation Building in the Early Republic
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ISBN: 9780742521315

ISBN-10: 0742521311

ISBN-13: 9780742521315

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael A. Morrison, James Brewer Stewart, David Brion Davis, Lacy K. Ford, Jon Gjerde

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By 1840, American politics was a paradox--unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have often characterized this phenomenon as the white republic. Race and the Early Republic offers a rich account of how this paradox evolved, beginning with the fledgling nation of the 1770s and running through the antebellum years. The essays in the volume, written by a wide array of scholars, are arranged so as to allow a clear understanding of how and why white political supremacy came to be in the early United States. Race and the Early Republic is a collection of diverse,…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His previous books include The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, which won a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize, and The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture which won a Pulitzer Prize.



Introduction




The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860




"Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": Hunting, Agriculture, and a Quaker Construction of Indianness in the Early Republic




From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction




The "Condition" Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North




"Here in America There Is Neither King Nor Tyrant": European Encounters with Race, "Freedom," and Their European Pasts




Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840




Making the "White Man's Country" White: Race, Slavery, and State-Building in the Jacksonian South




"We Have a Country": Race, Geography, and the Invention of Indian Territory




The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice



Index


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