Title Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850 / edited by Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta with the assistance of Peter Becker

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 309 pages) Series Publications of the German Historical Institute Publications of the German Historical Institute. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Political culture -- United States -- History Political culture -- Germany -- History Liberalism -- United States -- History Liberalism -- Germany -- History Republicanism -- United States -- History Republicanism -- Germany -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism. Liberalism Political culture Politics and government Republicanism SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140413 United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140416 Germany -- Politics and government -- 1740-1806. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054624 Germany -- Politics and government -- 1806-1848. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054628 Subject Germany United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Henretta, James A Heideking, Jürgen, 1947-2000 ISBN 0511041365 9780511041365 0511047495 9780511047497 0511119275 9780511119279 9780521800662 0521800668 9781139052313 1139052314 1280154810 9781280154812 1139882929 9781139882927 0511157339 9780511157332 0511304463 9780511304460

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