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Informationen zum Autor Edited by John Lauritz Larson and Michael A. Morrison Klappentext Penned by leading historians, the specially-commissioned essays of "Whither the Early Republic" represent the most stimulating and innovative work being done on imperialism, environmental history, slavery, economic history, politics, and culture in the early Republic. Zusammenfassung Penned by leading historians! the specially-commissioned essays of Whither the Early Republic represent the most stimulating and innovative work being done on imperialism! environmental history! slavery! economic history! politics! and culture in the early Republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What Is This Book? PART I. CONTINENTAL POSSESSIONS 1. Continental Possessions—Three Deepening Trends —Andrés Reséndez 2. Whither the Rest of the Continent? —Elizabeth A. Fenn 3. Continental Drifts —James F. Brooks 4. Continental Crossings —Alan Taylor PART II. PURSUING HAPPINESS 5. Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus? —Stewart Davenport 6. The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic —Christopher Clark 7. The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship —Barbara M. Tucker and Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr. 8. Economic Landscapes Yet to be Discovered: The Early American Republic and Historians' Unsubtle Adoption of Political Economy —James L. Huston PART III. INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPES 9. Environmental Stewardship and Decline in Old New England —Brian Donohue 10. Re-Greening the South and Southernizing the Rest —Mart A. Stewart 11. Mudslides Make Good History —Conevery Bolton Valencius 12. Down, Down, Down, No More: Environmental History Moves Beyond Declension —Ted Steinberg PART IV. COMMODIFICATION OF PEOPLE 13. The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith —David Waldstreicher 14. Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations —Amy Dru Stanley 15. Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideology in the Early Republic —Stephanie Smallwood 16. The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question —Walter Johnson PART V. PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND SPIRIT WORLDS 17. Sex and Sexuality: The Public, the Private, and the Spirit Worlds —Patricia Cline Cohen 18. Space in the Early American City —Bernard Herman 19. A History of all Religions —Leigh E. Schmidt 20. Questions, Suspicions, Speculations —David S. Shields Afterword: The Quest for Universal Understanding Index ...
