Whither the Early Republic : : A Forum on the Future of the Field / / ed. by John Lauritz Larson, Michael A. Morrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• MitwirkendeR: Bolton Valenčius, Conevery,; Brooks, James F.,; Clark, Christopher,; Cline Cohen, Patricia,; Davenport, Stewart,; Donahue, Brian,; Fenn, Elizabeth A.,; Herman, Bernard,; Huston, James L.,; Johnson, Walter,; Lauritz Larson, John,; Morrison, Michael A .,; Reséndez, Andrés,; Schmidt, Leigh E.,; Shields, David S.,; Smallwood, Stephanie,; Stanley, Amy Dru,; Steinberg, Ted,; Stewart, Mart A.,; Taylor, Alan,; Tucker, Barbara M.,; Tucker, Kenneth H.,; Waldstreicher, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Larson, John Lauritz,; Morrison, Michael A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

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.The past fifteen years have seen a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: What Is This Book?
• Part I. Continental Possessions
• Continental Possessions-Three Deepening Trends
• Whither the Rest of the Continent?
• Continental Drifts
• Continental Crossings
• Part II. Pursuing Happiness
• Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?
• The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic
• The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship
• Economic Landscapes Yet to be Discovered: The Early American Republic and Historians' Unsubtle Adoption of Political Economy
• Part III. Interactive Landscapes
• Environmental Stewardship and Decline in Old New England
• Re-Greening the South and Southernizing the Rest
• Mudslides Make Good History
• Down, Down, Down, No More: Environmental History Moves Beyond Declension
• Part IV. Commodification of People
• The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith
• Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations
• Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideology in the Early Republic
• The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery
• Part V. Public, Private, and Spirit Worlds
• Sex and Sexuality: The Public, the Private, and the Spirit Worlds
• Space in the Early American City
• A History of all Religions
• Questions, Suspicions, Speculations
• Afterword: The Quest for Universal Understanding
• Index