The New Historiography of the Early Federal Government
Institutions, Contexts, and the Imperial State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4222403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rao (0000-0003-4687-9690), Rao Rao (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5309/willmaryquar.77.1.0097 |
| OpenAlex | W3001924474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 94 |
Over the last several decades, scholars have brought the state "back in" to the study of American history. Early American historians in particular have examined federal governmental institutions to establish the strength and vigor of the national government, which had previously been dismissed as weak and statistically insignificant. The maturity and sophistication of this literature is clear, yet alternative approaches can further develop our understanding of the early federal government and the American state. In particular, by studying governmental authority and power from the perspective of those officeholders and persons who experienced it, scholars can more fully appreciate the complicated role of the state in early America. Indigenous people's interactions with the early federal government furnish one powerful example. Their acts of negotiation, contestation, and more suggest that the early federal governmental institutions and officers operated in a manner reminiscent of the British Empire in the mid- to late eighteenth century. The idea of an "imperial state" might therefore be a useful way to understand statecraft in the early United States
Empire · Government (linguistics · Historiography · Indigenous · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Public Administration
Baldíos et public lands
“We the People”
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy
Development and Rupture in Woodrow Wilson’s Critique of The Federalist
Imperial Origins of the Large Corporation
Capitalism Indivisible
Imperial Confusion
Pathways to State Capacity
Rethinking Political Development in the Americas
Making America great (the first time)
The transformation of American law, 1780-1860
Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States
The American National State and the Early West
Violence over the Land
The Slaveholding Republic
Building a New American State
From Max Weber
Andrew Jackson, Strikebreaker
From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon
“Cuffy,” “Fancy Maids,” and “One-Eyed Men”
The Middle Ground
Ironies of State Building
Spreading the news
Negotiated Empires
States of Dependency
Gathering Together
The Comanche Empire
State/Culture
The Nerves of State
The Jay Charter
King and Congress
American Arms Manufacturing and the Onset of the War of 1812
The Persistence of Empire
Why Can't Americans See the State
Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change
State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Early United States
A Federal Army, Not a Federalist One
Administering Entitlement
Plaintiffs v. Privateers
History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
Trail of Tears
The Far Southwest, 1846-1912
Engines of Diplomacy
River of Dark Dreams
American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862
Sacred Revolt
Statehood and Union
Conspiracy of Interests
The Frontier Republic
The Jeffersonian Triumph and American Exceptionalism
The Market Revolution in the Borderlands
After the Trail of Tears
The Scratch of a Pen
The Nation's Crucible
The American Territorial System
License for Empire
Federal Courts in the Early Republic
The Final Victims
"Separate Interests" and the Nation-State
What Are the Advantages of the Acquisition?”
A Troublesome Commerce
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Slave Country
Slavery, Sovereignty, and Empires
Remember Fort Mims
How the Indians Lost Their Land
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History
The United States Military under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989
An Administrative Trail of Tears
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
State and Citizen
Building the Empire State
Prairie Imperialists
The Legacy of the Articles of Confederation
Government, the State, and Governance
The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History
The Myth of the “Weak” American State
Rethinking the Colonial State
Indigenous Peoples without the Republic
The Politics of Indian Removal
Rethinking Mercantilism
Slaves of the State
Accounting for Conquest
Rivers of Sand
Negotiated Authorities
Civilization, Law, and Customary Diplomacy
Redeeming the Republic
Revolution, Reform, and the Politics of American Taxation, 1763-1783
The Political Economy of British Taxation, 1660-1815
A Spirited Resistance
Jefferson, the Ordinance of 1784, and the Origins of the American Territorial System
Trade and Empire
Facing East from Indian Country
The Native Ground
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Rethinking the State
Law and the American State
Retrieving the Red Continent
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |