The nation is already there

William and Mary Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-280

  Einhorn, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (47)

1. 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.
2. Joyce E. Chaplin, "Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History, " Journal of American History 89, no. 4 (March 2003): 1431-55 (quotation, 1433).
3. See also Joyce Appleby's description of the project of colonial history since the 1960s as an effort to "stop playing pedestal to the Revolution's statue" (Appleby, "A Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the Historical Study of Early America, " WMQ 50, no. 2 [April 1993]: 264)
4. Gordon S. Wood, "The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History, " in Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past, ed. Anthony Molho and Wood (Princeton, N. J., 1998), 144-63.
5. Greene, WMQ 64: 235, 239.
6. For my own trespassing into colonial materials, deeply indebted to the conversation with colonial historians but located squarely in the prenational framework, see Robin L. Einhorn, American Taxation, American Slavery (Chicago, 2006), chaps. 1-3.
7. Greene, WMQ 64: 235, 239-40, 246-47.
8. See Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)
9. Jeffrey L. Pasley, "Midget on Horseback: American Indians and the Historiography of the American State, " paper presented at the Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, Va., June 2, 2006.
10. For social history community studies, see Merle Curti, The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County (Stanford, Calif., 1959)
11. Charles S. Grant, Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent (New York, 1961)
12. Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City (Cambridge, Mass., 1964)
13. John Demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (New York, 1970)
14. Philip J. Greven Jr., Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (Ithaca, N. Y., 1970)
15. Kenneth A. Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736 (New York, 1970)
16. Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge, Mass., 1976)
17. Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (New York, 1978)
18. Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (Cambridge, 1981).
19. For slavery studies, see John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (New York, 1972)
20. Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York, 1974)
21. Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York, 1975)
22. Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Cambridge, Mass., 1987). These lists obviously are small samplings from large literatures.
23. For the early work, see Thomas Perkins Abernethy, From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1932)
24. Paul Wallace Gates, The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (Cambridge, Mass., 1934)
25. Gates, Landlords and Tenants on the Prairie Frontier: Studies in American Land Policy (Ithaca, N. Y., 1973).
26. More recent studies include Andrew R. L. Cayton, The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825 (Kent, Ohio, 1986)
27. John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, Conn., 1986)
28. Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats, Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America (Baltimore, 1995)
29. Stephen Aron, How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (Baltimore, 1996)
30. Susan E. Gray, The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1996).
31. For the early studies of state-level state building, see Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin, Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (New York, 1947)
32. Harry N. Scheiber, "Government and the Economy: Studies of the 'Commonwealth' Policy in Nineteenth-Century America, " Journal of Interdisciplinary History 3, no. 3 (Summer 1972): 135-51.
33. See also Lee Benson, The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case (Princeton, N. J., 1961)
34. Richard P. McCotmick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1966)
35. Scheiber, Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861 (Athens, Ohio, 1969)
36. Ronald P. Formisano, The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827-1861 (Princeton, N. J., 1971)
37. J. Mills Thornton III, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama 1800-1860 (Baton Rouge, La., 1978)
38. Formisano, The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s (New York, 1983)
39. Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York, 1984)
40. Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (New York, 1988).
41. On subnational state building, see also Peter Wallenstein, From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1987)
42. L. Ray Gunn, The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800-1860 (Ithaca, N. Y., 1988)
43. Robin L. Einhorn, Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 (Chicago, 1991)
44. Charles W. McCurdy, The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 (Chapel Hill, N. C., 2001).
45. For legal history, see esp. Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Cambridge, Mass., 1977)
46. Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1985)
47. William J. Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1996).