Title: American nationalism, 1783-1830; a self-portrait
Authors: Gruver, Rebecca Brooks,
Publisher: Putnam
Year: 1970
Subjects: Nationalism United States; United States History Sources.
Abstract: An anthology of documents, speeches, letters, and debates from 1783 through 1830 which explain the birth and growth of the concept of nationalism in the American Repbulic.
Contents: I. The situation of the new nation -- A. The tradition of liberty: energetic government vs individual liberty -- 1. Nathaniel Barrell and the Reverend Samuel Stillman -- 2. Robert R. Livingston and John Lansing -- 3. Charles Pickney, Rawlins Lowndes, Charles Cotesworth Pickney, and James Lincoln -- B. Popular sovereignty vs mob rule -- 4. Elbridge Gerry, James Wison, and James Madison -- 5. The contrast and John Adams -- 6. Thomas Jefferson and port folio -- 7. Joel Barlow and James Fenimore Cooper -- C. The promise of the frontier: economic opportunity vs vulgarization -- 8. James Hall, John James Audubon, and Timothy Flint -- 9. Timothy Flint, Frances Trollope, and the Reverend Samuel J Mills -- II. Response to federalist rule -- A. The whiskey rebellion: state power vs right of dissent -- 10. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson -- 11. Gazette of the United States and General Advertiser (Aurora) -- B. Reception of Jay's treaty: national sovereignty vs international good faith -- 12. John Swanwick and Fisher Ames -- 13. General Advertiser (Aurora) and Gazette of the United States -- III. Jeffersonian Nationalism -- A. Indian-white relations: racial superiority vs cultural relativism -- 14. Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Jefferson -- 15. Timothy Flint, the Reverend William Henry Milburn and Henry R. Schoolcraft -- B. The Louisiana purchase: eastern provincialism vs western expansionism -- 16. Senators Samuel White, Uriah Tracy, and John Breckinridge -- 17. Columbian Centinel and General Advertiser (Aurora) -- IV. Westward ho -- A response to the Napoleonic wars: American neutrality vs American honor