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Table of Contents

"O Dear, What Can the Matter Be?": The Urban Early Republic and the Politics of Popular Song in Benjamin Carr's Federal Overture

Liam Riordan
pp. 179-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0026
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"To Raise Them to an Equal Participation": Early National Abolitionism, Gradual Emancipation, and the Promise of African American Citizenship

Paul J. Polgar
pp. 229-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0023
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"Bad Men and Angels from Hell": The Discourse of Universalism in Early National Philadelphia

Janet Moore Lindman
pp. 259-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0032
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Private Letters and Public Diplomacy: The Adams Network and the Quasi-War, 1797-1798

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
pp. 283-311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0027
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"Gibbons v. Ogden," Law, and Society in the Early Republic, and: Law and Judicial Duty, and: Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire (review)

Jack Fruchtman Jr.
pp. 313-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0030
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If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy—From the Revolution to the War of 1812, and: Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy: Privateer, Patriot, Pioneer (review)

David Head
pp. 318-321
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0016
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A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (review)

Rita Reynolds
pp. 322-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0018
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (review)

Judith L. Van Buskirk
pp. 324-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0020
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So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism (review)

Rachel Tamar Van
pp. 327-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0022
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Family Values in the Old South (review)

Gary T. Edwards
pp. 329-332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0025
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The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1830 (review)

Will Mackintosh
pp. 332-335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0029
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A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (review)

Wendy A. Woloson
pp. 335-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0031
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850, and: Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (review)

W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz
pp. 339-343
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0017
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Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun, and: Party over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 (review)

Joshua A. Lynn
pp. 343-347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0019
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Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism (review)

David Prior
pp. 347-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0021
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The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (review)

Paul Quigley
pp. 350-353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0024
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"In the Hands of a Good Providence": Religion in the Life of George Washington (review)

Barton E. Price
pp. 353-356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2011.0028
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