Gentlemen Revolutionaries : : Power and Justice in the New American Republic / / Tom Cutterham.
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 struggl...
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Cutterham, Tom, author. Gentlemen Revolutionaries : Power and Justice in the New American Republic / Tom Cutterham. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Inheritance -- Chapter Two: Obedience -- Chapter Three: Justice -- Chapter Four: Capital -- Chapter Five: Rebellion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A Note on the Type 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Elite (Social sciences) United States History 18th century. Ideals (Philosophy) Political aspects United States History 18th century. Power (Social sciences) United States History 18th century. Social control United States History 18th century. Social justice United States History 18th century. Social status United States History 18th century. Upper class United States History 18th century. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017 9783110543322 print 9780691172668 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885213?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400885213.jpg |
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