Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- I -- II -- Overview -- 1 "Wir nennen's Gemeinsinn" (We Call It Public Spirit): Republic and Republicanism in the German Political Discussion of the… -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- The Republican World -- 2 The Concept of the Republic in Eighteenth-Century German Thought -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 3 Kant's Republicanism and Its Echoes -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- 4 Constitutions, Charity, and Liberalism by Default: Germany and the Anglo-American Tradition -- I -- II -- 5 Politics and Sentiment: Catharine Macaulay's Republicanism -- 6 Between Liberalism and Republicanism: "Manners" in the Political Thought of Mercy Otis Warren -- I -- II -- III -- The Transition from Republicanism to Liberalism -- 7 The Liberal and Democratic Republicanism of the First American State Constitutions, 1776-1780 -- AMERICA REPUBLICANISM IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN LIBERALISM -- THE VOCABULARY OF 1776: "REPUBLICAN" AND "DEMOCRAT" AS SYNONYMS -- REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES -- LIBERAL CHECKS ON POWER -- CONCLUSIONS -- 8 Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 -- 9 The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860 -- MARTIN VAN BUREN AND THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION OF 1821 -- POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL STATE -- THE TRIUMPH OF BOURGEOIS PROPERTY RIGHTS -- 10 Republicanism, Liberalism, and Market Society: Party Formation and Party Ideology in Germany and the United States,… -- COMMERCE AND CULTURE: THE IMPACT OF THE "MARKET REVOLUTION" -- "THE ART OF HOOK AND SNIVEY": THE MECHANISMS OF PARTISAN POLITICS -- VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: THE SHAPING OF PARTY IDEOLOGY -- 11 Festive Culture and National Identity in America and Germany, 1760-1860.

FESTIVE CULTURE AS CREATIVE FORCE -- AMERICAN AND GERMAN FESTIVE CULTURE, 1760S TO 1820S -- The Construction of Republican Festive Culture in the United States -- The Failure of a National Holiday in Germany -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF FESTIVE CULTURE, 1820S TO 1860S -- The Disintegration of Republican Festive Culture in the United States During the Antebellum Period -- The Nationalization of Bourgeois Festive Culture in Germany -- CONCLUSIONS -- 12 Charles Follen's View of Republicanism in Germany and the United States, 1815-1840 -- REPUBLICANISM IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATE: FOLLEN AS BRIDGE FIGURE -- Radical Nationalism (1813-1824) -- Carrying German Ideas to America (1824-1831) -- Religion and Republicanism -- Antislavery and Violence -- A FINAL EVALUTION OF FOLLEN'S VIEW OF REPUBLICANISM -- The Logic of Liberalism -- 13 "The Right to Possess All the Faculties that God Has Given": Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist… -- I -- II -- III -- 14 Freedom of Contract and Freedom of Person: A Brief History of "Involuntary Servitude" in American Fundamental Law -- Index.