The Revolution of 1800

by Horn, James P. P.; Lewis, Jan Ellen; Onuf, Peter S.

• ISBN13: 9780813921419
• ISBN10: 0813921414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably the most controversial and consequential election in American history. Focusing on the wide range of possible outcomes of the 1800--1801 melee, this collection of essays situates the American "Revolution of 1800" in a broad context of geo-political and racial developments in the Atlantic world as a whole. In essays written expressly for this volume, leading historians of the period examine the electoral, social, and political outcome of Jefferson's election in discussions strikingly relevant in the aftermath of the 2000 election.ContributorsJoyce Appleby, University of California, Los AngelesMichael Bellesiles, Emory UniversityJeanne Boydston, University of WisconsinSeth Cotlar, Willamette UniversityGregory Evans Dowd, University of Notre DameLaurent Dubois, Michigan State UniversityDouglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, SyracuseJoanne Freeman, Yale UniversityJames E. Lewis Jr., independent scholar Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military Academy, West PointJames Oakes, City University of New York Graduate CenterJeffrey Pasley, University of Missouri, ColumbiaJack N. Rakove, Stanford UniversityBethel Saler, Haverford CollegeJames Sidbury, University of TexasAlan Taylor, University of California, Davis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	xiii
James Horn
Jan Ellen Lewis
Peter S. Onuf
PART 1: THE REVOLUTION OF 1800	1	(152)
``What Is to Become of Our Government?'' The Revolutionary Potential of the Election of 1800	3	(27)
James E. Lewis Jr.
The Political Presidency: Discovery and Invention	30	(29)
Jack N. Rakove
``The Soil Will Be Soaked with Blood'': Taking the Revolution of 1800 Seriously	59	(28)
Michael A. Bellesiles
Corruption and Compromise in the Election of 1800: The Process of Politics on the National Stage	87	(34)
Joanne B. Freeman
1800 as a Revolution in Political Culture: Newspapers, Celebrations, Voting, and Democratization in the Early Republic	121	(32)
Jeffrey L. Pasley
PART 2: JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA	153	(136)
Thomas Jefferson and the Psychology of Democracy	155	(18)
Joyce Appleby
Was There a Religious Revolution of 1800?	173	(26)
Robert M. S. McDonald
Thomas Jefferson in Gabriel's Virginia	199	(21)
James Sidbury
``Whom Have I Oppressed?'' The Pursuit of Happiness and the Happy Slave	220	(20)
James Oakes
Making Gender in the Early Republic: Judith Sargent Murray and the Revolution of 1800	240	(27)
Jeanne Boydston
Spinning Wheel Revolution	267	(22)
Gregory Evans Dowd
PART 3: REVOLUTIONARY WORLD	289	(122)
``Troubled Water'': Rebellion and Republicanism in the Revolutionary French Caribbean	291	(18)
Laurent Dubois
The Empire of Liberty Reconsidered	309	(22)
Douglas R. Egerton
Joseph Gales and the Making of the Jeffersonian Middle Class	331	(29)
Seth Cotlar
An Empire for Liberty, a State for Empire: The U.S. National State before and after the Revolution of 1800	360	(23)
Bethel Saler
A Northern Revolution of 1800? Upper Canada and Thomas Jefferson	383	(28)
Alan Taylor
Notes on Contributors	411	(4)
Index	415