This is a cultural history of American federalism, which argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late-18th-century United States. The author examines the creations and performances of writers, collectors, engineers, inventors and illustrators who assembled an early national "world of things", at a time when American craftsmen were transformed into wage labourers and production was rationalized and mechanized. American federalism emerges as a culture of self-making in forms as various as street parades and natural history collections. Rigal demonstrates that federalism is not merely a political movement, but a phenomenon of culture.
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"An astute analysis of early national culture. . . . [A]n important book that raises important questions." -- Ronald Schultz, American Historical Review
An astute analysis of early national culture. . . . [A]n important book that raises important questions. -- Ronald Schultz, American Historical Review
An astute analysis of early national culture. . . . [A]n important book that raises important questions. -- Ronald Schultz, American Historical Review
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Laura Rigal is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Iowa.
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Rigal's book is a radically fresh reading of American federalism as a broad cultural phenomenon. It's far out, but far out in the very best sense--a creative and powerful revision.
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IN THE spring and summer of 1788, a series of Federal Processions were held in North American seaports from Charleston and Baltimore to New York, Boston, and Portsmouth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
federal mechanics, steamboat history, jeffersonian science, mammoth exhibit, mechanical artist, federal pyramid, museum proprietor, extended republic, exhibitionary complex, representational apparatus, dialect poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Pat Lyon, Federal Procession, North America, Birch's Views, Alexander Wilson, American Revolution, Deist Society, Charles Willson Peale, Grand Federal Edifice, John Quincy Adams, Library Company, New York, The Exhumation of the Mastodon, Wilson's Ornithology, American Philosophical Society, Franklin's Autobiography, Walnut Street Gaol, Bank of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush, John Fitch, New England, Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin Franklin, Gold-Winged Woodpecker New!
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IN THE spring and summer of 1788, a series of Federal Processions were held in North American seaports from Charleston and Baltimore to New York, Boston, and Portsmouth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
federal mechanics, steamboat history, jeffersonian science, mammoth exhibit, mechanical artist, federal pyramid, museum proprietor, extended republic, exhibitionary complex, representational apparatus, dialect poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Pat Lyon, Federal Procession, North America, Birch's Views, Alexander Wilson, American Revolution, Deist Society, Charles Willson Peale, Grand Federal Edifice, John Quincy Adams, Library Company, New York, The Exhumation of the Mastodon, Wilson's Ornithology, American Philosophical Society, Franklin's Autobiography, Walnut Street Gaol, Bank of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush, John Fitch, New England, Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin Franklin, Gold-Winged Woodpecker New!
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