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  • Rival Visions

    How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic

    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the ... Read more

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  • Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland

    The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood

    by Armin Mattes ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Notions of democracy and nationhood constitute the pivotal legacy of the American Revolution, but to understand their development one must move beyond a purely American context. Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland explores the simultaneous emergence of modern concepts of democracy and the nation on both sides of the Atlantic during the age of revolutions. Armin Mattes argues that in their ... Read more

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  • Aristocracy in America

    From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman

    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed so large in early republican Americans’ minds.Francis ... Read more

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