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The Age of Federalism

by Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick. 925 pgs.

Contributors:

   Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1995

Subjects:

United States--Politics And Government--1789-1809

	CONTENTS
	INTRODUCTION Modes of Thought and Feeling in the Founding Generation	3
	Making Sense of the American Revolution	4
	"Court" and "Country" Mentalities in Eighteenth-Century England	13
	"Court" and "Country" in the New American Republic	18
	The "Court" Persuasion in America, and Other Questions	21
	CHAPTER I Legitimacy	31
	George Washington, Republican	34
	Roman Simplicity	46
	The Executive Establishment	50
	Advise and Consent	55
	A Bill of Rights and a Judiciary System	58
	Revenue, Tariffs, and Tonnage	65
	Legitimacy Ratified	74
	CHAPTER II Finance and Ideology	77
	James Madison: The Political Economy of Anglophobia	79
	Alexander Hamilton and the Mercantile Utopia	92
	The Projection	114
	The Political Economy of Anglophilia	123
	CHAPTER III The Divided Mind of James Madison, 1790: Nationalist Versus Ideologue	133
	Madison on Funding	136
	Madison on Assumption	146
	The Resolution	153
	CHAPTER IV The Republic's Capital City	163
	Theories of Culture	164
	Jefferson and the Federal City	169
	The Idea of a City	182
	The Idea of a Capital	184
	An Imaginary Capital City	186
	CHAPTER V Jefferson and the Yeoman Republic	195
	CHAPTER VI Jefferson as Secretary of State	209
	The Nootka Sound Affair, 1790	212
	The Bank	223
	Jefferson and Hammond	244
	CHAPTER VII The Emergence of Partisan Politics: The "Republican Interest"	257
	Hamilton's Industrial Vision	258
	Madison Revises The Federalist	263
	Hamilton Beleaguered	270
	The Philadelphia Newspaper War, 1792	282
	Investigating Hamilton	293
	CHAPTER VIII The French Revolution in America	303
	How Two Peoples Have Viewed Each Other	303
	First Responses to the French Revolution	308
	The Revolution as Seen by Certain Concerned Americans	311
	Citizen Genet and His Mission	330
	Defining American Neutrality	336
	Collapse of the Genet Mission	341
	The French Revolution and Partisan Politics in America	354
	Afterthought: The View from Paris	365
	CHAPTER IX America and Great Britain	375
	Politics and Commerce	375
	Washington and the War Crisis, 1794	388
	A Vision of the Commercial Future	396
	Negotiating Jay's Treaty	406
	Ratifying the Treaty	415
	The "Golden Shower"	431
	CHAPTER X The Populist Impulse	451
	The Democratic Societies	451
	The Whiskey Insurrection	461
	Popular Sovereignty and the End of the Rebellion	474
	CHAPTER XI The Retirement of Washington	489
	Logic of the Farewell Address	489
	Monroe in Paris	498
	The State of Politics in 1796	513
	CHAPTER XII John Adams and the Dogma of "Balance"	529
	The Trouble with Adams	531
	Preparing for Crisis	537
	First Phase: The XYZ Mission	549
	CHAPTER XIII Adams and Hamilton	581
	Second Phase: The Fever of 1798	581
	February-October, 1799: Adams Temporizes	618
	CHAPTER XIV The Settlement	643
	The Naval Quasi-War	643
	The Convention of 1800	662
	CHAPTER XV The Mentality of Federalism in	691
	The Aliens and the Seditious	694
	The Apotheosis of Matthew Lyon	706
	Sedition and Subversion in England and America	711
	Hamilton's Army	714
	Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions	710
	Federalism and the "Campaign" of 1800	726
	Burr and the Revolution of 1800	743
	"We are all Republicans . . ."	750
	NOTES	755
	INDEX	911

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