Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
Early Republic ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
New Nation

In the early republic, Americans faced the challenge of replacing colonial networks of objects with bonds of citizenship. Material goods became increasingly politicized, including Gilbert Stuart’s Lansdowne portrait of George Washington, which celebrates the first president as a civilian leader. New object types brought citizens together at a continental scale, including engravings of Washington, engraved city views, and creamware, or queensware, dining goods. Yet George Washington’s dentures point to the tensions in establishing civility that continued to haunt the new nation. Constructed from teeth taken from Washington’s slaves, the dentures suggest the barbarity that Americans sought to repress in their new political republic.

Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic in Edwardian Imperial Thought

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
George Washington ◽  
American Federation ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
The Federalist Papers

In the first decade of the twentieth century, a rising generation of British colonial administrators profoundly altered British usage of American history in imperial debates. In the process, they influenced both South African history and wider British imperial thought. Prior usage of the Revolution and Early Republic in such debates focused on the United States as a cautionary tale, warning against future ‘lost colonies’. Aided by the publication of F. S. Oliver's Alexander Hamilton (1906), administrators in South Africa used the figures of Hamilton and George Washington, the Federalist Papers, and the drafting of the Constitution as an Anglo-exceptionalist model of (modern) self-government. In doing so they applied the lessons of the Early Republic to South Africa, thereby contributing to the formation of the Union of 1910. They then brought their reconception of the United States, and their belief in the need for ‘imperial federation’, back to the metropole. There they fostered growing diplomatic ties with the US while recasting British political history in-light-of the example of American federation. This process of inter-imperial exchange culminated shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles when the Boer Generals Botha and Smuts were publicly presented as Washington and Hamilton reborn.

National Security and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1776–1790

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie Totten
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
International Relations ◽  
National Security ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The Military

An examination of U.S. immigration policy during the early Republic from a security perspective—a common analytical focus within the field of international relations—reveals the inadequacy of traditional economic and ideological interpretations. Security concerns, based on actual threats from Great Britain and Spain, permeated the arguments both for and against immigration. Those in favor of immigration hoped to strengthen the nation, primarily by providing soldiers and money for the military; those opposed to immigration feared that it would compromise national security by causing domestic unrest and exposing the new nation to espionage and terrorism. These issues are not unlike those that beset contemporary policymakers.

American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis.

1994 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Herbert Sloan ◽  
James Roger Sharp
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
New Nation

What Happened Next

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Gardner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early American ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Political Foundations

This concluding chapter examines the shifts from the early American magazine into the “golden age” of the nineteenth-century American magazine. If the tumultuous birth of the nation was the most tremendous force shaping the first generations of the early republic, by the antebellum period, and especially after the Crash of 1837, the dramatically changing urban landscape was the engine transforming everyday life for millions of Americans—including the ways in which magazines were published and read. It is thus not surprising that the magazine imagined by this country's first century of editors as offering a model for the literary and political foundations of the new nation increasingly became reimagined after 1810 as a refuge from the realities of nation-building. Alongside this history, the chapter also takes a brief look into the advent of the new media “magazine” taking shape as of this publication.

American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis.

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 581
Author(s):  
Paul Goodman ◽  
James R. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
New Nation

American politics in the early republic: The new nation in crisis

Orbis ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-333
Author(s):  
Alan H. Luxenberg
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
New Nation

George Washington and the New Nation (1783-1793)

1971 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1220
Author(s):  
Merrill Jensen ◽  
James Thomas Flexner
Keyword(s):  
George Washington ◽  
New Nation
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