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Contents  Acknowledgments vii List of Illustrations and Tables xii Prologue: Consent and Civil Society in the Age of Revolution 1 1. The Revolutionary Crisis of Consent, 1775–1783 13 I. THE REVOLUTIONARY SETTLEMENT 2. Conflict and Civil Establishments, 1783–1793 47 3. Deliberation and Civil Procedure, 1787–1795 95 4. Persuasion and Civil Boundaries, 1780s–1790s 117 II. EXTENDING THE SETTLEMENT 5. Land Politics in Columbia, 1781–1804 171 6. Boundaries, Sympathies, and the Settlement, 1785–1800 228 III. POLITICS AND EXCLUSIONS 7. Party and Corruption: The Columbia Junto and the Rise of Martin Van Buren, 1799–1812 283 8. Female Interventions 342 9. Race, Property, and Civil Exclusions, 1800–1821 382 10. Jacksonian Columbia 430 Appendix Dramatis Personae 475 Note on County Sources 484 List of Abbreviations and Short Titles 489 Notes 491 Index 599 ...

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