Beyond the Founders

by Pasley, Jeffrey L.; Robertson, Andrew W.; Waldstreicher, David

• ISBN13: 9780807855584
• ISBN10: 0807855588
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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".

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Beyond the Founders
David Waldstreicher, Jeffrey L. Pasley, and Andrew W. Robertson	1	(30)
PART I. DEMOCRACY AND OTHER PRACTICES
1. The Cheese and the Words: Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley	31	(26)
2. Voting Rites and Voting Acts: Electioneering Ritual, 1790-1820
Andrew W. Robertson	57	(22)
3. Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans Wore Their Politics on Their Sleeves: Dress and Mobilization between American Revolutions
David Waldstreicher	79	(28)
PART II. GENDER, RACE, AND OTHER IDENTITIES
4. Women and Party Conflict in the Early Republic
Rosemarie Zagarri	107	(22)
5. The "Little Emperor": Aaron Burr, Dandyism, and the Sexual Politics of Treason
Nancy Isenberg	129	(30)
6. Young Federalists, Masculinity, and Partisanship during the War of 1812
Albrecht Koschnik	159	(21)
7. Protest in Black and White: The Formation and Transformation of an African American Political Community during the Early Republic
Richard Newman	180	(27)
PART III. NORMS AND FORMS
8. Consent, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution and the Early American Republic
John L. Brooke	207	(44)
9. Beyond the Myth of Consensus: The Struggle to Define the Right to Bear Arms in the Early Republic
Saul Cornell	251	(23)
10. The Federalists' Transatlantic Cultural Offensive of 1798 and the Moderation of American Democratic Discourse
Seth Collar	274	(29)
PART IV. INTERESTS, SPACES, AND OTHER STRUCTURES
11. Continental Politics: Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Appeal of Texas in the 1820's
Andrew R.L. Cayton	303	(25)
12. Private Enterprise, Public Good?: Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839-1851
Richard R. John	328	(27)
13. Popular Movements and Party Rule: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Jacksonian Political Order
Reeve Huston	355	(32)
14. Commentary: Deja Vu All Over Again: Is There a New Political History?
William G. Shade	387	(26)
Contributors	413	(4)
Index	417