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In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes : The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 / by David Waldstreicher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldstreicher, David, author.
- Series:
- Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Political culture.
- Nationalism--United States.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic.Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Tilte
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Practices of Nationalism
- PART ONE: REVOLUTION, NATION, STATE
- 1. The Revolutionary Politics of Celebration
- Ancient Rites
- Festivity and the Origins of American Politics
- Celebrating the American Future
- 2. The Constitution of Federal Feeling
- The Crisis of Virtue and the Virtues of "Crisis
- Celebrating Natural Aristocracy: From Virtue to Sensibility
- Inventing Federalist America
- 3. National Characters
- George Washington's Sentimental Journeys
- I Live Here in the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
- National Character: Ideology, Theology, Practice
- PART TWO: ELECTIONS, SECTIONS, AND RACES
- 4. The Celebration of Politics
- 1800: A Different Kind of Revolution
- Nationalism as Partisan Antipartisanship
- Celebratory Politics as the Early Republic's Public Sphere
- 5. Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Celebration
- New England as America
- America Going South
- West Meets East
- 6. Mixed Feelings: Race and Nation
- Nothing But Union
- Declaration of Independence! Where art thou now?
- The Africans and their descendants, will celebrate . . .
- Epilogue: "You May Rejoice, I Must Mourn
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed September 17, 2022).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908691-7-3
- 1-4696-0066-8
- OCLC:
- 1140792314
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