Histories of democracy and empire

American Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-133

  Gustafson, Sandra M ^a  

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EID: 58149315312     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2007.0025     Document Type: Review

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2. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies - Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 12, 2004," American Quarterly 57.1 (March 2005): 17-57; quotations on 43 and 22
3. Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner, eds., The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (New York: Routledge, 1997)
4. Carla Mulford et al., eds., Early American Writings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
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9. Edward Watts, Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998)
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11. and Andy Doolen, Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
12. Daniel T. Rodgers offers a valuable discussion of the significance of exceptionalism in professional history writing in "Exceptionalism," in Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past, ed. Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), 21-40
13. Fishkin, "Crossroads of Cultures," 19
14. orig. pub. in Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 2, 1820-1865 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995])
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37. The unidentified author of this piece was probably either editor George H. Colton or Whig congressman Daniel Bernard of New York. On the concept of "savage" speech, see Sandra M. Gustafson, Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), xxii-xxiii and passim
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41. Crockett has generally been treated as a dupe of the Whigs, but more recent evaluations suggest that he had a substantive political rationale for changing parties. See Thomas E. Scrugges, "Davy Crockett and the Thieves of Jericho: An Analysis of the Schackford-Parrington Conspiracy Theory," Journal of the Early Republic 19 (Fall 1999): 481-98
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44. John Carlos Rowe, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 24
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53. the "Jamaica Letter" of 1815
54. and his "Angostura Address" of 1819
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57. Quoted in Lynch, Simón Bolívar, 290
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