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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Early Republic"”.
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Citizenship by Design: Art and Identity in the Early Republic
This dissertation offers a study of the ways in which some artists active in the United States between 1790 and 1850 theorized that their work could participate in the process of creating and shaping the nation's citizens. Through the detailed analysis of four artists---Benjamin Henry Latrobe …
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
What did it mean to feel masculine in the early United States? Although the norms of early national masculinity oriented men toward the genres of life writing—to build written monuments to themselves—that republican convention also set the stage for others to express troubling affects and …
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The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures: Class and Political Economy in the Early Republic
<p>The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures was one of the first corporations in American history. The company was an attempt by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, with the help of his Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tench Coxe, to turn Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures” …
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A liminal citizenship: Race, slavery, and the law in the early republic, 1776-1813
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830
… backcountry developed during the decades of the Early Republic, reacting to the formative events of the nation during that time, such as the Second Great Awakening, the market revolution, and the War of 1812. The difficulties of these events necessitated new approaches to life in South Carolina. …
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A Conspiratorial Republic: The Societal and Political Impact of Conspiratorial Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States
… the American Revolution persisted well into the early American republic period, having a significant impact on early republic society. Drawing on Michael Butter’s study of conspiracy theories, this study examines how early Americans continued to view republican government as inherently fragile …
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The Role of the Circuit Courts in the Development of Federal Justice and the Shaping of United States Law in the Early Republic: Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson on Circuit and on the Court
… influence of the federal justice system in the early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in establishing uniformity of federal law and procedure across the nation has largely been ignored. This thesis seeks to remedy this lack of research on circuit courts by revealing the central …
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Mr. Jefferson's Army in Mr. Madison's War: Atrophy, Policy, and Legacy in the War of 1812
… tremendous impact on martial development in the Early Republic. Jefferson reshaped the military to suite his pragmatic republican ideals. His militia system expanded while the regulars were disbanded. The Navy was greatly decreased, and the remainder of his military was used for frontier …
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Aristocrats, Republicans, and Cannibals: American Reactions to French Women in Violence
… to either the Federalist or Democratic-Republican Party, it argues that the dividing ideological lines between these factions were not as steadfast and rigid as previously believed during this period. Though papers and individuals did adhere to party lines, their opinions toward women in …
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The Dark Cloud of Jeffersonian Philanthropy: Native American Assimilation and the Critique of the Frontier Romance
During the most crucial years of the early republic (1780-1830), Jeffersonian Philanthropy saw the incorporation of the Native American into American citizenry as an ideal cornerstone for the building of the new nation. This assimilation would take many forms, yet the most discussed are …
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
… Anglo-American readers. Throughout the early republic, the genre of women's Indian captivity narratives took on another significance. "Captivating a Nation" places the scholarship of Indian captivity in conversation with American nationalism and reveals the ways in which Indian captivity …
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American Beauties: The Cult of the Bosom in Early Republican Art and Society
… shape the discourse around women’s roles in the early republic. The cult of the bosom sought to shift the way in which the female body, and especially the bosom, was regarded and represented by identifying it as the locus of a number of positive qualities associated with women, including virtue, …
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From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier
… he became an influential leader of the local Republican Party. His politics eventually involved him in a number of disputes, and in 1806 he was forced to fight a duel with a local merchant named Thomas Stewart. The microhistory describes Bates life within the context of American history during …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… “American” national identity in the early republic. Although some historians have argued that this process of “Americanization” was completed during the American Revolution or in its immediate aftermath, Americans still grappled with competing visions of “Americanness” well into the …
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America's Rhetorical Revolution: Defining Citizens in Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia, 1783--1812
… of a distinctly American citizenship during the Early Republic. By focusing on Philadelphia, and by examining Benjamin Rush's institutions and the dialogues that he engaged in, I argue that the foundations of American citizenship produced the possibility of an inclusive nation. Indeed, over the …
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Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815
… Regulating Migration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815</em> argues that international and domestic circumstances led to fierce debates about migration regulations that partitioned the populace of the early Republic into parties which battled over the United States’ …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… appellate jurisdiction, giving the Court nearly complete discretion over the composition of its own docket. Soon thereafter, Congress likewise turned over control of federal procedure to the Judicial Conference of the United States and in 1939 furnished the federal judiciary with its own …
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To See Her Face, To Hear Her Voice: Profiling the Place of Women in Early Upper East Tennessee, 1773-1810.
… from the late eighteenth-century through the early Republic period to examine the place of women in the upper East Tennessee frontier and argue that despite frontier conditions the underlying attitudes about women did not change.</p>
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West African Food Traditions in Virginia Foodways: A Historical Analysis of Origins and Survivals.
… Anglo-American foodways during the colonial and early Republic eras; West African foodways; African-American foodways during slavery; and current trends in Virginia foodways. Primary sources consulted for this study included archaeological reports, eighteenth and nineteenth century personal …
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The Roles of Patrician and Plebeian Women in Their Religion in the Republic of Rome.
… investigates the topic during the period of the Republic (509-30 BCE) and pulls the information together in a concise manner.</p><p>The primary sources used were narrative histories and literature from the late Republic, as well as from the Imperial period up through the second century, that …
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