1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820511803321

Titolo

Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850 / / edited by Jurgen Heideking, James A. Henretta with the assistance of Peter Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press

Washington, D.C., : German Historical Institute, 2002

ISBN

1-139-88292-9

1-139-05231-4

1-280-15481-0

0-511-11927-5

0-511-04136-5

0-511-15733-9

0-511-30446-3

0-511-04749-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Altri autori (Persone)

HenrettaJames A

HeidekingJurgen <1947->

Disciplina

320.51/0943/09033

Soggetti

Political culture - United States - History

Political culture - Germany - History

Liberalism - United States - History

Liberalism - Germany - History

Republicanism - United States - History

Republicanism - Germany - History

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

United States Politics and government 1783-1865

Germany Politics and government 1740-1806

Germany Politics and government 1806-1848

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Wir nennen's gemeinsinn" (we call it public spirit): republic and republicanism in the German political discussion of the nineteenth



century / Rudolf Vierhaus -- The concept of the republic in eighteenth-century German thought / Hans Erich Bödeker -- Kant's republicanism and its echoes / Otto Dann -- Constitutions, charity, and liberalism by default: Germany and the Anglo-American tradition / A.G. Roeber -- Politics and sentiment: Catharine Macaulay's republicanism / Vera Nünning -- Between liberalism and republicanism: "manners" in the political thought of Mercy Otis Warren / Rosemarie Zagarri -- The liberal and democratic republicanism of the first American state constitutions, 1776-1780 / Willi Paul Adams -- Bennington and the Green Mountain boys: the emergence of liberal democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 / Robert E. Shalhope -- The birth of American liberalism: New York, 1820-1860 / James A. Henretta -- Republicanism, liberalism, and market society: party formation and party ideology in Germany and the United States, c. 1825-1850 / Paul Nolte -- Festive culture and national identity in America and Germany, 1760-1860 / Jürgen Heideking -- Charles Follen's view of republicanism in Germany and the United States, 1815-1840 / Edmund Spevack -- "The right to possess all the faculties that God has given": possessive individualism, slave women, and abolitionist thought / Amy Dru Stanley -- Freedom of contract and freedom of person: a brief history of "involuntary servitude" in American fundamental law / Robert J. Steinfeld.

Sommario/riassunto

Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on Republicanism and Liberalism to a new stage. Previously, the relationship between Republican and Liberal ideas, concepts and world views has been discussed in the context of American revolutionary and late eighteenth-century history. While the German states did not experience successful revolutions like those in North America and France, Republican and Liberal ideas and 'language' deeply affected German political thinking and culture, especially in the southern states. The essays published in this book expand the time frame of the debate into the first half of the nineteenth century, applying an innovative and comparative German-American perspective. By systematically studying the similarities and differences in the understanding of Republicanism and Liberalism in the United States and German states, the collection stimulates efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.