In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5774105 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Len Travers (0000-0001-6948-9818) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1317-1317 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | In the midst of perpetual fetes: The making of American nationalism, 1776-1820, David Waldstreicher, 1997 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2651327 |
| OpenAlex | W2015210843 |
| Language | EN |
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. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade. They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale. While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says. |Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct. In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the mid-18th century to conservative and culturally dominant institutions in the 20th century, Harvey explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural history
African-American Public Rituals on the Fourth of July and Citizenship in South Carolina During Reconstruction
Performance Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public
Sacagawea's "Cold"
The American National State and the Early West
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
The American School of Empire
Nation-State as Symbolic Construct
“Schemes of Reformation”
An Appeal to Heaven
Founding Fanatics
Baltimore and the French Atlantic
Signs of Difference
Antislavery Science in the Early Republic
“The United States of Africa”
Slaves in Algiers
Captive Audiences
The Not-So-Great Cat Massacre
Political Song in Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks
Singing “Past, Present and Future”
“Peggy, Not Having His Permission to Absent Herself from His Service”
“A Success in Every Particular”
Saloons in the Wild West and Taverns in Mesopotamia
Evangelizing the South
Fighting an Empire for the Good of the Empire
An Unusable Past
The Quest for America
Taking Modernity's Wager
The Concept of Political Culture
The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque
Seventeen Centuries of Sin
Agonistic Audiences
Nature's Nation” Revisited
The Man That Was Used Up
The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle's Electoral Double Vision
You feel embodied with the cataract
Passing as a Pastor
What to Israel Potter is the Fourth of July? Melville, Douglass, and the Agency of Words
Whenever They Judge it Expedient”
Compassionate Protector of America
Cities are Alive with the Sound of Music
To Put into Complete Practice Those Hallowed Principles”
From Beyond the Grave and Across the Ocean
Partisan politics and the public sphere
Atlantic Cultures and the Age of Revolution
Independence and Interdependence
Expressly Recognized by Our Election Laws
Protest, Dissent, Empire, and Nation in Revolutionary America
Fix'd almost amongst Strangers
Never Did I See So Universal a Frenzy”
A successful British MNE in the backyard of American big business
American Homicide
Chords of Affection
To Transplant in Alien Soil
The anatomy of the Early Republic
Towards a Standard Model of the Cognitive Science of Nationalism – the Calendar
Sympathy and Separation
See the jails open and the thieves arise”
Republican Courts and Beyond
Representing Public Opinion
Imperial entertainments
The Problem of Citizenship in the American Revolution
A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private”
The origins and nature of American nationalism
From ‘cultivators of the soil’ to ‘citizen-soldiers’
Sport for Grown Children’
Response to Symposium on Awkward Rituals
Vicarious Revolutionaries
The Culture of Politics
Identity Performances in a US–Mexico Border Celebration
The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence
The Promotion of 'Symmetrical' European Citizenship
Buying Out to Buy In
The Pocahontas Story in Early America
So Majestic a Monument of Antiquity”
Patriots in the Court of Pandæmonium
Anti-Foundational Founders
Sorting Disciplinary Boundaries
Celebrating Freedom and Ethnicity
Founding narratives
In Defense of Civil Society
The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic
Many Who Wandered in Darkness
Public Culture and Economic Liberalism in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia, - 1820
Manly Exercises
Nationalism in Settled Times
Founders Chic As Culture War
The Politics of the Dance Floor
The Timelessly Rhetorical Presidency
Yes We Can
Publius and Political Imagination
Changing the national past
Celebrating independence jubilees and the millennium
Democracy and Collective Identity in the EU and the USA
Not Your Parents' Political Socialization
Copperheads and Blacksnakes
Saving the Nation Through Exclusion
Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere Transnational Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770-1830)
Runaway Slaves in Antebellum Baltimore
Varieties of American Popular Nationalism
Performative State-Formation in the Early American Republic
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