Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution

Index

Index Adams, John: on aristocracy of talent, 219; on Boston Massacre, 204–5; on common people driven by emotions, 211; on democracy, 61; on emotive rhetoric, 95–96; on factionalism, 203; on good government, 136; on good laws’ e√ects on society, 128; on hereditary privilege, 216; on inequality, 217; on landownership as condition of virtue , 130; on Mayflower Compact, 37; on mercantile pursuits, 62; on people’s dignity in a republican system, 126; as Humphrey Ploughjogger, 121; on power and property, 71; on property qualifications for voting, 67; on public and private virtue, 219; on Revolution as a providential event, 133–34; on Society of the Cincinnati, 102; on Southern planters, 63; on treating common people well, 146; on George Washington’s theatrical talents, 96; on George Washington’s virtue, 155 Adams, John Quincy, 139 Adams, Samuel: on America as refuge of liberty, 111; on America’s future, 133, 135; claims disinterestedness, 155; on corruption, 165–66; on merit as quali- fication for o≈ce, 219; on party spirit, 159; on political modesty, 121; representative government is self-repairing, 170; on Shays’s Rebellion, 167; on street riots, 210–11; on unqualified men in government, 199 Allen, John, 42 Allison, Hugh, 92 American Revolution: abolitionist demands inspired by Revolutionary language of liberty, 18, 156, 157, 191–92, 237; certitude and the historiography of, 228; consensus interpretation of, 20, 21; creates new cultural space for liberty, 225–26, 233–24, 235–38; and distrust of centralized government, 227; dynamics of, 5; as an episode in the history of ideas, 27; federalism prevents centralization of power, 227; ‘‘from the bottom up’’ approach, 27; historiography of, 2, 19–21; as a history of constraints on liberty, 18; idealized interpretive frameworks for, 228; limited explanatory value of analysis in terms of paradoxes, 229; Marxist interpretation of, 20; and meaning of ‘‘the people,’’ 115–16; its model of happiness, 226; and modern culture of equal rights, 32; narrative of, 8, 80–81, 225; political history of, 14; preservationist goals of, 81–84; radicalism of, 78–79, 86; representations of, 5, 85; republican government as an emanation of the people, 133; and slavery, 22–23; and the speed of historical 282 index American Revolution (continued) time, 8; and theory of culture, 6; uniqueness of, 224–25 Ames, Fisher: demands death sentence for Shays’s Rebellion leaders, 167; passion breeds rebellion, 171; on respecting public opinion, 160; uses emotive language , 183 Ames, Nathaniel, 186, 188 Anarchiad, The, 196 Anti-Federalists, 180–86, 190, 230 Appleby, Joyce, 229–31 aristocracy of merit, 214–22 Armstrong, John, 217 Articles of Confederation, 66 Atwater, Jeremiah, 197 Bacon, Francis, 4 Bailyn, Bernard, 14 Ball, William, 144 Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Lord: on social distinctions, 64 Banneker, Benjamin: appeals to Je√erson to end slavery, 157 Barlow, Joel, 213 Batavia: as Dutch historical fiction, 112 Bauman, Zygmunt, 13, 41 Bayeux Tapestry, 80 Beard, Charles, 58 Beckford, Thomas, 88 Berkeley, George, 46–48; limited bondage compatible with liberty, 47 Beverley, Robert, 200 Billings, Joel, 164 Bill of Rights (English, 1689), 90 Black, William, 200 Blackstone, William, 118; on the authority of representatives, 143 Blanchard, Jonathan, 63 Bland, Richard, 97, 151 Bland, Theodorick, 128–29 Bloch, Marc, 9 Boston Massacre, 204–5 Bowdoin, James, 140 Brabant, Joan, duchess of, 36 Braudel, Fernand, 8 Braxton, Carter, 76, 199, 210; on British contempt for Americans, 99; on historical ties to England, 222 Brewster, William, 57 Bridewell, 54 ‘‘Britishness,’’ the idea of, 26 Brooke, John, 26 Bull, William, II, 93 Burke, Aedanus, 103 Burke, Thomas, 204 Butler, Pierce, 157 Byrd, William, II, 62; contempt for traders, 62; and the cult of gentry freedom , 75; rejected by English upper classes, 69; on virtue as condition of liberty, 211 Cabot, George, 197 Calvert, Charles, 65 Carey, Matthew, 188 Carrington, Edward, 143, 219–20 Carter, Landon, 62 Cato’s Letters: definitions of liberty and tyranny, 39 Certeau, Michel de, 8 Chase, Samuel: on natural liberty, 54 Chastellux, Chevalier de, 72, 100 Cincinnati, Order of, 102–4, 108 class conflict, as an analytical framework, 14 Cobbett, William, 187, 188, 194 Coke, Sir Edward, 36, 91 Colden, Cadwallader, 201 Columbian Magazine, 71 Connecticut Wits, 172 Constitution, U.S.: original meanings of, 33 Constitutional Convention, 143 Continental Army, 169 Continental Congress, 76 index 283 Cooper, David: condemns slavery as inconsistent with the idea of America, 157 Coxe, Tench, 135 Cromwell, Oliver, 82 cultural capital, 8, 86...