Republicanism, U.S./Bibliography

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• Appleby, Joyce. Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (1992)
• Appleby, Joyce. “Commercial Farming and the ‘Agrarian Myth’ in the Early Republic,” Journal of American History 68 (1982), pp 833-849 in JSTOR
• Appleby, Joyce. “Republicanism in Old and New Contexts,” in William & Mary Quarterly, 43 (January, 1986), pp 3-34 in JSTOR
• Appleby, Joyce. ed., "Republicanism in the History and Historiography of the United States," special issue of American Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4, (1985) online at JSTOR with articles:
  • Appleby, Joyce. "Republicanism and Ideology," pp. 461-473
  • Linda K. Kerber, "The Republican Ideology of the Revolutionary Generation," pp. 474-495
  • Cathy Matson and Peter Onuf, "Toward a Republican Empire: Interest and Ideology in Revolutionary America," pp. 496-531
  • Jean Baker, "From Belief into Culture: Republicanism in the Antebellum North," pp. 532-550
  • James Oakes. "From Republicanism to Liberalism: Ideological Change and the Crisis of the Old South," pp. 551-571
  • John Patrick Diggins, "Republicanism and Progressivism," pp. 572-598
• Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, 1984, her reprinted essays
• Ashworth, John, "The Jeffersonians: Classical Republicans or Liberal Capitalists?" Journal of American Studies 18 (1984), p 428-430 in JSTOR
• Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. (1967). ISBN 0-674-44301-2 excerpt and text search
• Bailyn, Bernard. The Origins of American Politics (1966) excerpt and text search
• Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology (1978) excerpt and text search
• Banning, Lance. "Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited: Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American Republic," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 3-19 in JSTOR
• Peter Becker, JÜrgen Heideking and James A. Henretta, eds. Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press. 2002.
• Brown, David. "Jeffersonian Ideology And The Second Party System" Historian, Fall, 1999 v62#1 pp 17-44 online edition
• Brown; Stuart Gerry. The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison Syracuse University Press. 1954online edition.
• Buel, Richard. Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789–1815 (1972)
• Colbourn, Trevor. The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (1965) online version
• Currie, James T., The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801, (1997); excerpt and text search; The Constitution in Congress: The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829, (2001)
• Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric L. McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (1995), the most advanced history oif the 1790s online edition
• Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2002) excerpt and text search
• Ellis, Joseph J. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic (2007)
• Everdell, William R. The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans, 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2000
• Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War 1970 Highly influential study; online edition
• Ferling, John E. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic]. (2003) online edition
• Foner, Eric. "Radical Individualism in America: Revolution to Civil War," Literature of Liberty, vol. 1 no. 3, July/September 1978 pp 1-31 online
• Gould, Philip. "Virtue, Ideology, and the American Revolution: The Legacy of the Republican Synthesis," American Literary History, Vol. 5, No. 3, Eighteenth-Century American Cultural Studies (Autumn, 1993) , pp. 564-577
• Greene, Jack P. and J. R. Pole, eds. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (1991), 845pp; emphasis on political ideas and republicanism; revised edition (2004) titled A Companion to the American Revolution
• Hartz, Louis. The Liberal Tradition in America (1955) online edition
• Hart, Gary. Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21St-Century America (2002)
• Hendrickson, David C. and Robert W. Tucker. Empire of Liberty: the statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1990), foreign policy excerpt and text search
• Jacobs, Meg, ed. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003) excerpt and text search
• Kerber, Linda K. Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber 1997
• Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1997) excerpt and text search
• Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2001) excerpt and text search
• Klein, Milton. et al., eds., The Republican Synthesis Revisited (1992).
• Kloppenberg, James T. The Virtues of Liberalism (1998)
• Kramnick, Isaac. Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America (1990)
• Kramnick, Isaac and Theodore Lowi. American Political Thought (2008), textbook
• McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980) on economic theories excerpt and text search
• Morgan, Edmund. Inventing the People (1989) excerpt and text search
• Mushkat, Jerome, and Joseph G. Rayback, Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology (1997)
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980)
• Onuf, Peter S. Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001).
• Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960)
• Pangle, Thomas L. The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke
• Vernon Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought (1927) v 2 online
• Pocock, J. G. A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975).
• Pocock, J. G. A. "Virtue and Commerce in the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 3#1 (1972), 119–34. in JSTOR
• Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1997), Pulitzer Prize
• Rodgers, Daniel T. "Republicanism: the Career of a Concept," Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Jun., 1992), pp. 11-38 online in JSTOR
• Ross, Steven J. "The Transformation of Republican Ideology," Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 323-330 in JSTOR
• Sandoz, Ellis. Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America. (University of Missouri Press, 2006. xviii, 230 pp. isbn 978-0-8262-1674-8.)
• Shalhope, Robert E. "Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography," William and Mary Quarterly, 29 (Jan. 1972), 49-80 in JSTORl highly influential article that defined the topic
• Shalhope, Robert E. "Republicanism and Early American Historiography," William and Mary Quarterly, 39 (Apr. 1982), 334-356 in JSTOR
• Watson, Harry L. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990) (ISBN 0-374-52196-4)
• Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), major sweeping synthesis
• Wiltse, Charles Maurice. The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy (1935) online edition
• Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution: How a Revolution Transformed a Monarchical Society into a Democratic One Unlike Any That Had Ever Existed. (1992). ISBN 0-679-40493-7
• Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969), a dense but highly influential study excerpt and text search
• Wood, Gordon S. "Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution," The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), pp. 3-32 in JSTOR* Wood, Walter Kirk. "Before Republicanism: Frank Lawrence Owsley and the Search for Southern Identity, 1865-1965." Southern Studies (1995) 6(4): 65-77. ISSN 0735-8342
• Zagarri, Rosemarie. A woman's dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American revolution (1995) online at ACLS e-books