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Taming democracy : "the people," the founders, and the troubled ending of the American Revolution by Bouton, Terry

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Sentimental democracy : the evolution of America's romantic self-image 1st ed. by Burstein, Andrew

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Re-imagining democracy in the age of revolutions : America, France, Britain, Ireland, 1750-1850 by Oxford Scholarship Online

Subjects: “…Democracy History 18th century.…”
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Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860 First edition. by Oxford Scholarship Online

Subjects: “…Democracy Mediterranean Region History 18th century.…”
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Elections in the French Revolution : an apprenticeship in democracy, 1789-1799 by Crook, Malcolm, 1948-

Contents: “…The experiment with electoral democracy in 1792 --…”
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Re-imagining democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 by Oxford Scholarship Online

Subjects: “…Democracy Latin America History 18th century.…”
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The unknown American Revolution : the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America by Nash, Gary B.

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Revolutionary founders : rebels, radicals, and reformers in the making of the nation 1st ed.

Contents: “…Philadelphia's radical caucus that propelled Pennsylvania to independence and democracy /…”
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Sans-culottes : an eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution by Sonenscher, Michael

Contents: “…Introduction: "One of the most interesting pairs of breeches recorded in modern history" -- An ingenious emblem -- Diogenes and Rousseau: music, morality, and society -- Property, equality, and the passions in eighteenth-century French thought -- The entitlements of merit -- Conclusion: democracy and terror.…”

The radicalism of the American Revolution 1st Vintage books ed. by Wood, Gordon S.

Contents: “…Republicanization of monarchy ; Truncated society ; Loosening the bands of society ; Enlightened paternalism ; Revolution ; Enlightenment ; Benevolence -- pt. III. Democracy. Equality ; Interests ; Assault on aristocracy ; Democratic officeholding ; World within themselves ; Celebration of commerce -- Middle-class order.…”

The Political classics : Hamilton to Mill

Contents: “…/ Murray Forsyth -- Edmund Burke : Reflections on the revolution in France / Maurice Keens-Soper -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Philosophy of right / Bruce Haddock -- Alexis de Tocqueville : Democracy in America / Michael Levin -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels : The Communist manifesto / John Hoffman -- John Stuart Mill : On.…”

Propaganda 1776 : secrets, leaks, and revolutionary communications in early America by Castronovo, Russ, 1965-

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Political liberalism and the rise of American Romanticism by Reznick, Scott M.

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Federalists reconsidered

Contents: “…Cayton -- Federalism, the styles of politics, and the politics of style / David Waldstreicher -- Gender and the first party system / Rosemarie Zagarri -- The problem of slavery in the age of federalism / Paul Finkelman -- Ministers, misanthropes, and mandarins: the federalists and the culture of capitalism, 1790-1820 / Steven Watts -- Benjamin Franklin as weird sister: William Cobbett and federalist Philadelphia's fears of democracy / Keith Arbour -- "Steady habits" under siege: the defense of federalism in Jeffersonian Connecticut / Andrew Siegel -- From fathers to friends of the people: political personae in the early republic / Alan Taylor -- Afterword: the federalists--still in need of reconsideration / James M. …”

An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age : British culture, 1776-1832

Contents: “…Revolution / Mark Philp -- War / J.E. Cookson -- Democracy / H.T. Dickinson -- Women / Barbara Caine -- Empire / John Gascoigne -- Slavery / James Walvin -- Policing / David Philips -- Law / David Lemmings -- Utopianism / Gregory Claeys -- Religion / R.K. …”

A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed. by Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)

Antebellum women : private, public, partisan by Lasser, Carol

Contents: “…Susannah Rowson, excerpts from Charlotte Temple, 1791 -- Martha Ballard's diary : two months in the life of a Maine midwife, 1800 -- Eliza Leslie, "The slaves," a short story from The young ladies' mentor, 1803 -- Tapping Reeve, excerpts from The law of Baron and Femme, 1816 -- Cherokee Women's Petitions 1817, 1818, and 1831 -- Lydia Maria Child, excerpts from The American frugal housewife, 1830 -- Alexis de Tocqueville, excerpts from Democracy in America, volume II, 1840 -- Catharine Beecher, excerpts from A treatise on domestic economy, 1841 -- Letters by Amy Galusha, A Lowell Mill girls, 1849-1851 -- Salem Female charitable Society Constitution, 1804 -- African Dorcas Association, 1828 -- Female Moral Reform Society report, 1835 -- Maria Sturges, address to Christian females in slaveholding states, 1836 -- Fathers and Rulers Petition, 1836 -- Controversy over abolitionist lectures of the Grimké sisters, 1837 -- Mary Lyon's plans for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1837 -- Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones, "Anti-slavery sewing circles," 1847 -- "World's" Temperance Conventions, 1853 -- "Linda Brent" (Harriet Jacobs), excerpts from Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by herself, 1861 -- Mary Davis letter in support of abolition and the liberty party, 1847 -- Resolutions and declaration of sentiments adopted by the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, 1848 -- Mary Sheldon's composition book entry : "Women and politics," 1848 -- Jane Swisshelm attacks the Compromise of 1850 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, excerpts from Uncle Tom's cabin, 1851 -- Sojourner truth's "Aren't I a woman?" …”

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age by Oxford University Press

Contents: “…Revolution / Mark Philp -- War / J.E. Cookson -- Democracy / H.T. Dickinson -- Women / Barbara Caine -- Empire / John Gascoigne -- Slavery / James Walvin -- Policing / David Philips -- Law / David Lemmings -- Utopianism / Gregory Claeys -- Religion / R.K. …”
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Rethinking the Atlantic world : Europe and America in the age of democratic revolutions

Contents: “…The one and the many : the two revolutions question and the 'consumer-commercial' Atlantic, 1789 to the present / Allan Potofsky - - Democracy and equality in the radical Enlightenment : revolutionary ideology before 1789 / Jonathan Israel - - Between republicanism and the Enlightenment : Turgot and Adams / Maria Luisa Pesante - - Nicolas Bergasse and Alexander Hamilton : the role of the judiciary in the separation of powers and two conceptions of constitutional order / Pasquale Pasquino - - Neutrality and trade in the Dutch republic (1775-1783) : preludes to a piecemeal revolution / Koen Stapelbroek - - Free trade and democratic revolutions in eighteenth-century Europe and America. …”

The early American republic : a history in documents by Huston, Reeve, 1960-

Contents: “…The struggle for control ; The world of the enslaved ; Resistance, repression, and rebellion -- Picture essay : Picturing families -- The triumph of partisan democracy. Creating a white male electorate ; Re-creating party politics ; Party issues, party principles ; Politics without parties -- Race, reform, and sectional conflict. …”