The republic reborn : war and the making of liberal America, 1790-1820
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The republic reborn : war and the making of liberal America, 1790-1820
（New studies in American intellectual and cultural history）
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987
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Bibliography: p. [323]-369
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Winner of the Book Prize for New Authors from the National Historical Society
The War of 1812 played a critical role in the emergence of an American "culture of capitalism." In The Republic Reborn Steven Watts offers a brilliant new interpretation of the war and the foundation of liberal America. He explores the sweeping changes that took place in America between 1790 and 1820-the growth of an entrepreneurial economy of competition, the devlopment of a liberal political structure and ideology, and the rise of a bourgeois culture of self-interest and self-control. "Serving as a vehicle for change and offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity," Watts writes, the War of 1812 "ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Birth of the Liberal Republic, 1790-1820
Chapter 1. "A New Era Has Commenced in the United States"
Chapter 2. John Taylor: "The Family of the Earth"
Chapter 3. John Adams: "Our Country Is in Masquerade!"
Chapter 4. Hugh Henry Brackenridge: Modern Chivalry and the Search for Self
Chapter 5. War and the Wages of Change
Part II. Ambition and Civism: War and Social Regeneration
Chapter 6. Society and Self-Made Men: Dreams and Disquietude
Chapter 7. Philip Freneau: "Besotted by Prosperity, Corrupted by Avarice, Abject from Luxury"
Chapter 8. Henry Clay: "The Tranquil, Putrescent Pool of Ignominious Peace"
Chapter 9. Charles J. Ingersoll: "Deep in the Slough of Faction"
Chapter 10. War as Social Crusade: Civism and Renewal
Part III. Religion and Repression: War and Early Capitalist Culture
Chapter 11. Con Men and Character: The Burden of Moral Free-Agency
Chapter 12. Spencer Houghton Cone: "I Will Be a Living Worker in the World-I Will Play No More"
Chapter 13. Benjamin Rush: "I Consider It as Possible to Convert Men into Republican Machines"
Chapter 14. Mason Locke Weems: "Sacrificing Their Gold to Gamblers, Their Health to Harlots, and Their Glory to Grog"
Chapter 15. War as Cultural Crusade: Self-Control and Civil Religion
Part IV. Founding Fathers and Wandering Sons: War and the Masks of Personae
Chapter 16. The Quiet Desperation of the Liberal Self
Chapter 17. Charles Brockden Brown: "I am Conscious of a Double Mental Existence"
Chapter 18. Alfred Brunson: "Either Rise to Distinction or Fall in the Attempt"
Chapter 19. John Quincy Adams: "Two Objects the Nearest to my Heart, My Country and My Father"
Chapter 20. War as Personal Quest: The Inner Healing of the Liberal Individual
Part V. Politics and Productivity: War and the Emergence of Liberalism
Chapter 21. The Crisis of Republicanism
Chapter 22. Tensions in Political Economy: Producers and Home Markets
Chapter 23. Strategies for Survival: From Enlightened to Energized Republicanism
Chapter 24. The Liberal Republications: "Our New Era in our Politics"
Chapter 25. The Liberal Impulse to War
Part VI. The Republic Reordered, 1812-1815
Chapter 26. The Crucible of War
Chapter 27. The Vindication of God's Republic
Chapter 28. The Triumph of Self-Made Men
Chapter 29. The Victory of Liberalism
Chapter 30. Into the Future
Notes
Index
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