In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820

Name: In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
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ISBN: 9780807846919

ISBN-10: 0807846910

ISBN-13: 9780807846919

Edition: 1997

Authors: David Waldstreicher

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In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: The Practices of Nationalism



Revolution, Nation, State



The Revolutionary Politics of Celebration Ancient Rites Festivity and the Origins of American Politics Celebrating the American Future



The Constitution of Federal Feeling The Crisis of Virtue and the Virtues of ""Crisis"" Celebrating Natural Aristocracy: From Virtue to Sensibility Inventing Federalist America



National Characters George Washington's Sentimental Journeys ""I Live Here in the Midst of Perpetual Fetes"" National Character: Ideology, Theology, Practice



Elections, Sections, and Races



The Celebration of Politics 1800: A Different Kind of Revolution Nationalism as Partisan Antipartisanship Celebratory Politics as the Early Republic's Public Sphere



Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Celebration New England as America America Going South West Meets East



Mixed Feelings: Race and Nation Nothing But Union ""Declaration of Independence! Where art thou now?"" ""The Africans and their descendants, will celebrate . . .""


Epilogue: ""You May Celebrate, I Must Mourn""


Index


Illustrations



The Repeal



Epitaph



The Continental Almanac



Federal Pillars, March 1788



Federal Pillars, August 1788



Reception of Washington at Trenton



Proclamation for a Federal Thanksgiving



Abraham Bishop



The Jeffersoniad



Black Cockade Funeral



Toasts, for Fourth July 1804



Governor Hancock's Ball



A Peep into the Antifederal Club



Hunters of Kentucky



The Battle of Plattsburg



Bobalition Broadside, 1816



Bobalition Broadside, 1822



Reply to Bobalition Broadside, 1819"