Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850

by Edited by Jürgen Heideking , James A. Henretta , Assisted by Peter Becker

• ISBN13: 9780521800662
• ISBN10: 0521800668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on Republicanism and Liberalism to a new stage. Previously, the relationship between Republican and Liberal ideas, concepts and world views has been discussed in the context of American revolutionary and late eighteenth-century history. While the German states did not experience successful revolutions like those in North America and France, Republican and Liberal ideas and 'language' deeply affected German political thinking and culture, especially in the southern states. The essays published in this book expand the time frame of the debate into the first half of the nineteenth century, applying an innovative and comparative German-American perspective. By systematically studying the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in the United States and German states, the collection stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors page	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
Jurgen Heideking
James A. Henretta
OVERVIEW
``Wir nennen's Gemeinsinn'' (We Call It Public Spirit): Republic and Republicanism in the German Political Discussion of the Nineteenth Century	21	(14)
Rudolf Vierhaus
THE REPUBLICAN WORLD
The Concept of the Republic in Eighteenth-Century German Thought	35	(18)
Hans Erich Bodeker
Kant's Republicanism and Its Echoes	53	(20)
Otto Dann
Constitutions, Charity, and Liberalism by Default: Germany and the Anglo-American Tradition	73	(18)
A. G. Roeber
Politics and Sentiment: Catharine Macaulay's Republicanism	91	(22)
Vera Nunning
Between Liberalism and Republicanism: ``Manners'' in the Political Thought of Mercy Otis Warren	113	(14)
Rosemarie Zagarri
THE TRANSITION FROM REPUBLICANISM TO LIBERALISM
The Liberal and Democratic Republicanism of the First American State Constitutions, 1776-1780	127	(20)
Willi Paul Adams
Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850	147	(18)
Robert E. Shalhope
The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860	165	(22)
James A. Henretta
Republicanism, Liberalism, and Market Society: Party Formation and Party Ideology in Germany and the United States, c. 1825-1850	187	(22)
Paul Nolte
Festive Culture and National Identity in America and Germany, 1760-1860	209	(26)
Jurgen Heideking
Charles Follen's View of Republicanism in Germany and the United States, 1815-1840	235	(26)
Edmund Spevack
THE LOGIC OF LIBERALISM
``The Right to Possess All the Faculties that God Has Given'': Possessive individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought	261	(20)
Amy Dru Stanley
Freedom of Contract and Freedom of Person: A Brief History of ``Involuntary Servitude'' in American Fundamental Law	281	(18)
Robert J. Steinfeld
Index	299