The question of home rule

William and Mary Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-258

  Gould, Eliga H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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References (26)

1. Carl Lotus Becker, The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 (1909; repr., Madison, Wis., 1968), 22.
2. Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (New York, 2003)
3. Jack P. Greene, "Colonial History and National History: Reflections on a Continuing Problem, " William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 64, no. 2 (April 2007): 249.
4. For the Progressive scholarship of Becker's generation, see also Charles Austin Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913)
5. J. Franklin Jameson, The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement (1926; repr., Princeton, N. J., 1967).
6. Daniel T. Rogers examines the rise and fall of the republican synthesis in American historical writing (Rogers, "Republicanism: The Career of a Concept, " Journal of American History 79, no. I [June 1992]: 11-38).
7. For republicanism's antidemocratic tendencies, see Edward Countryman, "Indians, the Colonial Order, and the Social Significance of the American Revolution, " WMQ 53, no. 2 (April 1996): 342-62.
8. On the Constitution as a proslavery document, see J. William Harris, The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500-1877 (Malden, Mass., 2006), chap. 3.
9. Greene, WMQ 64: 245
10. Eliga H. Gould, "AHR Forum: A Virtual Nation: Greater Britain and the Imperial Legacy of the American Revolution, " American Historical Review 104, no. 2 (April 1999): 476-89.
11. See also Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (Charlottesville, Va., 2000).
12. George Washington, "Address to the Cherokee Nation, " Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1796, in [John Rhodehamel, ed. ], George Washington: Writings (New York, 1997), 956-60 ("hunger and cold, " 956).
13. On the Declaration as part of an international transformation, see Peter S. Onuf, "A Declaration of Independence for Diplomatic Historians, " Diplomatic History 22, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 71-83
14. David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, Mass., 2007).
15. For the Declaration's changing meaning and the shift in emphasis from the first paragraph, which focuses on home rule, to the second, see Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (New York, 1997).
16. On slavery, see esp. Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill, N. C., 2006).
17. On Indians, see Eric Hinderaker, Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (Cambridge, 1997)
18. Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
19. The Revolution's effect on stateless peoples is the subject of a book I am currently writing on the American Revolution and the legal geography of the Atlantic world. See also Linda K. Kerber, "Toward a History of Statelessness in America, " American Quarterly 57, no. 3 (September 2005): 727-49.
20. The Justifying Memorial of the King of Great Britain, in Answer to the Exposition, &c. of the Court of France, in The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779 (London, 1780), 22: 409.
21. For Gibbon's authorship of the memorial, see Patricia B. Craddock, Edward Gibbon: Luminous Historian, 1772-1794 (Baltimore, 1989), 134-35.
22. On the United States as a pirate republic, see Eliga H. Gould, "American Independence and Britain's Counter-Revolution, " Past and Present, no. 154 (February 1997): 107-41
23. Gould, "A World Transformed? Mapping the Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825, " Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 3, no. 2 (2003): 24-37.
24. On the American Republic's threat to Spain's American empire, see David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, Conn., 1992), chap. 10
25. James E. Lewis Jr., The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829 (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1998).
26. Joyce E. Chaplin, "Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History, " Journal of American History 89, no. 4 (March 2003): 1440-41 (quotations, 1441).