Beyond the Founders New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

Name: Beyond the Founders New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
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ISBN: 9780807855584

ISBN-10: 0807855588

ISBN-13: 9780807855584

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, David Waldstreicher

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In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Jeffrey L. Pasley is associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and author of "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic.

Andrew W. Robertson is associate professor of history at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the U.S. and Britain, 1790-1900.



Introduction : beyond the founders




The cheese and the words : popular political culture and participatory democracy in the early American Republic




Voting rites and voting acts : electioneering ritual, 1790-1820




Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans wore their politics on their sleeves : dress and mobilization between American revolutions




Women and party conflict in the early republic




The "little emperor" : Aaron Burr, Dandyism, and the sexual politics of treason




Young federalists, masculinity, and partisanship during the War of 1812




Protest in black and white : the formation and transformation of an African American political community during the early republic




Consent, civil society, and the public sphere in the age of revolution and the early American Republic




Beyond the myth of consensus : the struggle to define the right to bear arms in the early republic




The federalists' transatlantic cultural offensive of 1798 and the moderation of American democratic discourse




Continental politics : liberalism, nationalism, and the appeal of Texas in the 1820s




Private enterprise, public good? : communications deregulation as a national political issue, 1839-1851




Popular movements and party rule : the New York anti-rent wars and the Jacksonian political order




Commentary : deja vu all over again : is there a new political history?