| Description |
1 online resource (x, 309 pages). |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1740-1806.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1806-1848.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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Political culture -- Germany -- History.
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Liberalism -- United States -- History.
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Liberalism -- Germany -- History.
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Republicanism -- United States -- History.
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Republicanism -- Germany -- History.
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Germany -- Politics and government.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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Liberalism. (OCoLC)fst00997183
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Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Republicanism. (OCoLC)fst01095066
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1740-1865
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Henretta, James A.
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Heideking, Jürgen, 1947-2000
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2002 0521800668 (DLC) 00065164 (OCoLC)45466133 |
| ISBN |
0511041365 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511041365 (electronic bk.) |
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0511119275 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511119279 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139052313 (electronic bk.) |
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1139052314 (electronic bk.) |
