Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850 /
[Book]
edited by Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta with the assistance of Peter Becker.
Washington, D.C. :
German Historical Institute,
2002.
1 online resource (x, 309 pages)
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
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Represents the cooperative effort of American and German scholars to systematically study the similarities and differences in the understanding of republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states. The book stimulates new efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual, and social developments in the 'modernizing' Atlantic world.
Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850.
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Liberalism-- Germany-- History.
Liberalism-- United States-- History.
Political culture-- Germany-- History.
Political culture-- United States-- History.
Republicanism-- Germany-- History.
Republicanism-- United States-- History.
Liberalism.
Political culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Politics and government
Republicanism.
Germany, Politics and government, 1740-1806.
Germany, Politics and government, 1806-1848.
United States, Politics and government, 1775-1783.
United States, Politics and government, 1783-1865.