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Authors: Gordon S. Wood
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (129 page)
Joyce Appleby,
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
(2000) and Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
(1992), using other evidence, endorse Rothenberg’s view that rural capitalism arose at the end of the eighteenth century. Appleby, in particular, nicely captures the early nineteenth-century culture out of which the myth of the self-made man arose. On capitalism, see also Paul A. Gilje, ed.,
Wages of Independence: Capitalism in the Early American Republic
(1997). Of the many works on artisans, see Howard B. Rock,
Artisans of the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson
(1978); Bruce Laurie,
Working People of Philadelphia, 1800–1850
(1980); Ronald Schultz,
The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720–1830
(1993); Charles G. Steffen,
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812
(1984); and Rosalind Remer,
Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
(1996). Stuart M. Blumin,
The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760–1900
(1989) is the best study of the development of the middle class out of an eighteenth-century society divided between a gentry elite and commoners.
On debt and bankruptcy, see Peter J. Coleman,
Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt and Bankruptcy, 1607–1900
(1974); Scott A. Sandage,
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
(2005); and Bruce H. Mann,
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of the American Independence
(2002).
Susan Dunn,
Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison and the Decline of Virginia
(2007) is the best book on the decay of the once most powerful state in the Union.
Index
Act of Settlement,
400
“actual malice” standard,
257
n45
Adair, John,
384
Adams, John: and the Alien Friends Act,
261
and aristocratic ceremony,
81
–82
and the arts,
549
and banking,
99
and the Barbary Wars,
635
and the Bill of Rights,
70
and Burr,
279
,
385
n63
and class divisions,
22
–24,
223
,
226
,
234
on common language,
48
,
49
and conspiracy theories,
245
and “Discourses on Davila,”
146
,
151
and domestic insurrection,
265
n64
and elections,
210
,
212
,
278
and family structure,
495
and the federal judiciary,
401
,
403
,
419
and the First Congress,
63
–64
and the French Revolution,
185
and the Great Seal,
554
–55
and Hamilton,
274
–75
and honor codes,
236
inauguration of,
238
,
288
and individual rights,
19
and international commerce,
190
–92
and Jefferson,
277
and Madison,
699
and market competition,
325
and Marshall,
435
and military power,
240
,
264
,
266
–67
and monarchism,
82
–84
and nationalism,
43
and newspapers,
256
and North-South tensions,
146
and peace efforts with France,
272
–75
and presidential powers,
88
–89
and public education,
477
and religion,
577
and the sciences,
544
,
724
and sectional conflict,
165
–66
and Sedition Acts,
257
on settlement of America,
37
and slavery,
525
,
527
,
537
and social changes,
340
–41
and structure of government,
212
–13
and Washington,
75
,
78
,
81
–82,
157
–58,
565
and western settlement,
546
n10
and the XYZ Affair,
242
,
244
Adams, John Quincy: and the Barbary Wars,
697
and Chase impeachment,
424
and French influence,
239
and impressment,
641
on Jefferson and Madison,
147
and patronage,
300
and suffrage expansions,
305
and trade disputes,
667
and the War of 1812,
695
Adams, Samuel,
51
,
212
,
561
,
562
,
577
Addison, Alexander,
427
Adventists,
617
adversarial justice,
447
–48
advice and consent powers,
88
–89
advisory opinions,
454
African Americans,
337
African culture,
600
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
599
Age of Reason
(Paine),
199
–200,
589
agrarian laws,
8
agriculture: and American exceptionalism,
45
and the American labor force,
706
and industrial development,
100
–101
and international commerce,
626
,
627
–28
and market economics,
322
–24,
325
–26
and Native Americans,
124
,
397
–98
and overseas commerce,
625
–26
and political parties,
168
n72
and population growth,
318
and public education,
474
and sea island planters,
527
and sectional conflict,
164
–65
and slavery,
509
–11,
527
–29,
734
–35
and territorial expansion,
367
–68
and western settlement,
359
,
361
Alabama,
530
alcohol,
344
,
398
,
597
.
See also
temperance movements
Alcuin: A Dialogue
(Brown),
507
Alien Act: and constitutional issues,
145
enforcement of,
260
,
262
and the Federalist Party,
247
–50,
268
and judicial review,
433
and Marshall,
433
,
435
and nullification,
269
–71
and partisanship,
268
,
269
and sectional conflict,
267
Alien Enemies Act,
249
Alien Friends Act,
249
–50,
260
–62
Allen, Levi,
112
Allston, Washington,
574
–75
amendments.
See
Bill of Rights (U.S.);
specific amendments
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
477
,
722
–23,
735
American Academy of Fine Arts,
567
,
568
American Antiquarian Society,
477
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
491
American Catholic Church,
592
American Colonization Society,
541
American exceptionalism,
44
,
50
,
544
American Geography
(Morse),
244
,
328
,
387
–88
American Ornithology
(Wilson),
393
American Philosophical Society,
143
,
186
,
332
,
394
,
477
,
544
,
735
American Revolution: and Adams,
82
and class divisions,
38
and Congress,
142
and cultural influence,
544
,
552
–53,
554
,
557
–58,
560
,
570
debt from,
95
–97,
150
,
154
and democratization of politics,
712
and education,
47
and the Enlightenment,
4
,
37
and family structure,
495
,
500
and freemasonry,
51
and the French Revolution,
174
and Hamilton,
90
and the Invalid Pension Act,
453
and Jefferson,
287
and lawyers,
402
–3
and legal reforms,
406
and Marshall,
434
and presidential power,
85
and religion,
578
,
581
,
585
,
605
–6
and republicanism,
6
–7
and slavery,
540
–41
and social structure,
2
,
3
,
30
–31,
341
and state legislatures,
16
–17
and trade policy,
189
Ames, Fisher: and banking,
293
–94
and class divisions,
35
and cultural issues,
373
and decline of the Federalists,
305
and Democratic-Republican Societies,
203
and excessive democracy,
303
and the federal judiciary,
418
and the First Congress,
60
–61
and free commerce,
194
and immigration,
39
and international commerce,
199
and the Louisiana Purchase,
369
and military power,
266
and partisanship,
308
,
333
and political gossip,
159
and the Sedition Act,
261
and suffrage expansions,
305
and western settlement,
358
and the XYZ Affair,
243
Ames, Nathaniel,
333
anarchy,
176
Anderson, Eliza,
571
–72
Andover Theological Seminary,
603
–4,
615
Anglican Church,
576
,
578
,
580
,
585
,
613
Anglicans,
337
Annals of Congress
,
60
Annapolis Convention,
90
anthropology,
540
Anti-Federalists: and the Bill of Rights,
66
–67,
71
and class divisions,
35
and excise taxes,
135
and executive power,
72
–73
and the federal judiciary,
409
