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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Practices of Nationalism -- PART ONE: REVOLUTION, NATION, STATE -- 1. The Revolutionary Politics of Celebration -- Ancient Rites -- Festivity and the Origins of American Politics -- Celebrating the American Future -- 2. The Constitution of Federal Feeling -- The Crisis of Virtue and the Virtues of "Crisis -- Celebrating Natural Aristocracy: From Virtue to Sensibility -- Inventing Federalist America -- 3. National Characters -- George Washington's Sentimental Journeys -- I Live Here in the Midst of Perpetual Fetes -- National Character: Ideology, Theology, Practice -- PART TWO: ELECTIONS, SECTIONS, AND RACES -- 4. The Celebration of Politics -- 1800: A Different Kind of Revolution -- Nationalism as Partisan Antipartisanship -- Celebratory Politics as the Early Republic's Public Sphere -- 5. Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Celebration -- New England as America -- America Going South -- West Meets East -- 6. Mixed Feelings: Race and Nation -- Nothing But Union -- Declaration of Independence! Where art thou now? -- The Africans and their descendants, will celebrate . . . -- Epilogue: "You May Rejoice, I Must Mourn -- Index. |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. |
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9781469600666 (electronic bk.) |
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