Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836Lexington Books, 2004 - 205 頁 No single vision for the future of America existed after the Revolution. In light of social and economic changes, America's scope shifted from community-mindedness, the very heart of the republican ideal, to economic individualism. In Moral Visions and Material Ambitions, A. Kristen Foster describes how eager young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia manipulated America's moral vision of a classical republic to facilitate their own material ambitions, fostered by the free market economy that arose between 1776 and 1836. As market developments changed economic relationships in the city, men and women used the Revolution's republican language to help explain what was happening to them, and in the process they helped redefine class structure in Philadelphia. This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of the country. |
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The Revolutionary War and the Development of Republican Ideologies in Philadelphia | 9 |
Tension in the Artisan Shop The Deterioration of a Most Republican Relationship | 39 |
From Journeymen to Workingmen Philadelphia Forges an Iron Chain of Bondage | 75 |
All Things in Moderation Philadelphias Middling Sort Builds a Hybrid Republican Culture and Its Own Class Identity | 107 |
On the Margins of Republican Citizenship Moderate Beginnings | 143 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Selected Bibliography | 183 |
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第 2 頁 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
第 3 頁 - American revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over : but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.
第 5 頁 - Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980); Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980); and Jan Lewis, "The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic...