Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American Historical Register
Author: Author List of the New Hampshire State Library, June 1, 1902 ...
Author: New Hampshire State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The New-England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382805405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... Library of the Late ... G.L. Balcom ...
Author: George L. BalcomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The New-England Historical & Genealogical Register
Author: Revolutionary America, 1763-1789
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Ill. on lining papers. Includes index.
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
Author: Western Reserve Historical Society Publication
Author: Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Author: Tom CutterhamPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.