us survey historiography

early republic a ‘politics of anxious extremes’ - honour culture and elite culture, fears of disunion/civil war/foreign dominance

freeman

jeffersonian revolution of 1800 - the government voluntarily reduced its authority, rooted in the enlightenment idea that society would be held together by common good

wood

andrew jackson emphasised good citizens as providers rather than the government

feller

1828 jackson campaign song

hunters of kentucky

louisiana’s sugar country was particularly economically prosperous

follett

slavery premodern and precapitalist - cultural and stymied economic evolution

genoveses

caning of charles sumner as a departure point toward the civil war

sinha

slavery not capitalist because marxist capitalism defines the labourers’ ability to sell their labour but slavery is forced labour

clegg

slavery central to US modernisation and capitalism

baptist

no clear regional divides in consensus for / against slavery - cannot say there was a proslavery south and an antislavery north

cleeves

slavery had been a profitable economic system but was harmful to development and culture

engerman and fogel

texan cause as both just and american (mexican-american war and texan creation myth)

austin

wilmot proviso was a revealing moment in the development of north/south sectionalism

mcpherson

reconstruction as UNFINISHED REVOLUTION - lost cause narrative. presidential reconstruction a failure

foner

national reunion and sentimental culture came at the cost of racial justice

blight

emphasis on frederick douglass’ contribution to abolitionism, black leadership and role as 19thC black intellectual

blight

whiteness studies reveals whiteness to be a construct and challenges american exceptionalism

kolchin

roediger

race as a boundary to aid class control - irish immigrant workers had to prove their whiteness to be seen as american

mascuilinity and the politics of sex provoked the US’ action and motivations in the spanish-american and philippine-american wars

hogansen

white man’s burden

painter