Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

Contents, Illustrations

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Beyond the Founders David Waldstreicher, Je√rey L. Pasley, and Andrew W . Robertson 1 part i. democracy and other practices 1. The Cheese and the Words: Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic Je√rey L. Pasley 31 2. Voting Rites and Voting Acts: Electioneering Ritual, 1790–1820 Andrew W . Robertson 57 3. Why Thomas Je√erson and African Americans Wore Their Politics on Their Sleeves: Dress and Mobilization between American Revolutions David Waldstreicher 79 part ii. gender, race, and other identities 4. Women and Party Conflict in the Early Republic Rosemarie Zagarri 107 5. The ‘‘Little Emperor’’: Aaron Burr, Dandyism, and the Sexual Politics of Treason Nancy Isenberg 129 6. Young Federalists, Masculinity, and Partisanship during the War of 1812 Albrecht Koschnik 159 7. Protest in Black and White: The Formation and Transformation of an African American Political Community during the Early Republic Richard Newman 180 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 9. Beyond the Myth of Consensus: The Struggle to Define the Right to Bear Arms in the Early Republic Saul Cornell 251 10. The Federalists’ Transatlantic Cultural O√ensive of 1798 and the Moderation of American Democratic Discourse Seth Cotlar 274 part iv. interests, spaces, and other structures 11. Continental Politics: Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Appeal of Texas in the 1820s Andrew R. L. Cayton 303 12. Private Enterprise, Public Good?: Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839–1851 Richard R. John 328 13. Popular Movements and Party Rule: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Jacksonian Political Order Reeve Huston 355 14. Commentary: Déjà Vu All Over Again: Is There a New New Political History? William G. Shade 387 Contributors 413 Index 417 Illustrations figure 1.1. Estimated Percentage of Adult White Males Voting in Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Elections, 1790–1823 47 figure 1.2. Estimated Percentage of Adult White Males Voting in Massachusetts Gubernatorial Elections, 1796–1819 48 figure 3.1. ‘‘Non Intercourse or Dignified Retirement’’ (1809) 86 figure 3.2. ‘‘The Fruits of Amalgamation’’ (1839) 91 figure 3.3. Frederick Douglass dolls, late 1850s 94 figure 3.4. Trading cards issued by abolitionists to encourage African American men to enlist in the Union Army 96 figure 8.1. Civil Society and the Late Ancien Régime State 214 figure 8.2. The State, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere in the Early American Republic 228 This page intentionally left blank ...