Republicanism and Early American Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5041735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Shalhope (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 334 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| 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 | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1918756 |
| OpenAlex | W2329824142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
Wurr ITHIN the last several decades a dramatic reorientation has taken place in interpretation of the Revolutionary and early national periods. This new perspective is the result of scholars' recognition of the vital function of republicanism in early American society. As an increasingly sophisticated comprehension of republicanism continues to transform our understanding of the Revolution and its aftermath, it has the potential to collapse the idealist-materialist dichotomy in the progressive-whig dialogue that has dominated twentieth-century American historiography. More than any other historian, Bernard Bailyn was the progenitor of this new appreciation of republicanism. His work, along with that of Gordon S. Wood and J.G.A. Pocock, among others, established the initial perception of republicanism that has become so familiar.1 These authors argue that colonial American spokesmen, drawing deeply on the libertarian thought of the English commonwealthmen, embraced a distinctive set of political and social attitudes and that these attitudes permeated their society.2 Believing that history revealed a continual struggle between the spheres of liberty and power, the American Revolutionaries quickly formed a consensus in which the concept of republicanism epitomized the new social and political world they believed they had created. Preserving a republican polity meant protecting liberty from the ceaseless aggression of power. In addition, Americans believed that what made republics great or
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Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Social contract theory and its critics
The comparative study of regimes and societies
J. G. A. Pocock's republicanism and political theory
Écoles lancastériennes, citoyenneté républicaine et imagination spatiale en Amérique au début du xixe siècle
The Turner Thesis and Republicanism
Liberalism, Civic Humanism, and the American Political Tradition
Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption
The History of British Political Thought
Rakes, Coquettes and Republican Patriarchs
From Trust to Contract
Virtue, Size, and Liberty
No Ordinary Historian”
Lockeian liberalism” and “classical republicanism”
The Problem of Citizenship in the American Revolution
Patriots and a Menace
Representative Men
Neither Markets nor Administration
The Shaping of a Virtuous Citizenry
Merit and popular virtue in the political thought of James Madison, 1783–1788
Conflict and collaboration
The Posture That We Give the Dead
Who Deserves Political Influence? How Liberal Ideals Helped Justify Mid Nineteenth-Century Exclusionary Policies
Distribution or dissolution
Tom Paine's New World Order
Beyond Republicanism, Back to Constitutionalism
The Debate over the Panama Congress and the Origins of the Second American Party System
The First Phase of the Empire State’s “Triple Transition”
The Grail of Original Meaning
The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought
Evangelical Networks in the Greater Caribbean and the Origins of the Black Church
Economic Inequality and the New School of American Economics
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2023 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |