Beyond The Founders

In pursuit of more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. This political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans. The early history of the United States was not just the product of the "founding fathers".

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: Beyond the Founders

1

(30)

David Waldstreicher

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Andrew W. Robertson

PART I. DEMOCRACY AND OTHER PRACTICES

The Cheese and the Words: Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic

31

(26)

Jeffrey L. Pasley

Voting Rites and Voting Acts: Electioneering Ritual, 1790--1820

57

(22)

Andrew W. Robertson

Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans Wore Their Politics on Their Sleeves: Dress and Mobilization between American Revolutions

79

(28)

David Waldstreicher

PART II. GENDER, RACE, AND OTHER IDENTITIES

Women and Party Conflict in the Early Republic

107

(22)

Rosemarie Zagarri

The ``Little Emperor'': Aaron Burr, Dandyism, and the Sexual Politics of Treason

129

(30)

Nancy Isenberg

Young Federalists, Masculinity, and Partisanship during the War of 1812

159

(21)

Albrecht Koschnik

Protest in Black and White: The Formation and Transformation of an African American Political Community during the Early Republic

180

(27)

Richard Newman

PART III. NORMS AND FORMS

Consent, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution and the Early American Republic

207

(44)

John L. Brooke

Beyond the Myth of Consensus: The Struggle to Define the Right to Bear Arms in the Early Republic

251

(23)

Saul Cornell

The Federalists' Transatlantic Cultural Offensive of 1798 and the Moderation of American Democratic Discourse

274

(29)

Seth Cotlar

PART IV. INTERESTS, SPACES, AND OTHER STRUCTURES

Continental Politics: Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Appeal of Texas in the 1820s

303

(25)

Andrew R. L. Cayton

Private Enterprise, Public Good?: Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839--1851

328

(27)

Richard R. John

Popular Movements and Party Rule: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Jacksonian Political Order

355

(32)

Reeve Huston

Commentary: Deja Vu All Over Again: Is There a New New Political History?

387

(26)

William G. Shade

Contributors

413

(4)

Index

417

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