Introduction

pp 1-18

PART I - OVERVIEW

1 - “Wir nennen’s Gemeinsinn” (We Call It Public Spirit): Republic and Republicanism in the German Political Discussion of the Nineteenth Century

pp 21-32

PART II - THE REPUBLICAN WORLD

2 - The Concept of the Republic in Eighteenth-Century German Thought

pp 35-52

3 - Kant’s Republicanism and Its Echoes

pp 53-72

4 - Constitutions, Charity, and Liberalism by Default: Germany and the Anglo-American Tradition

pp 73-90

5 - Politics and Sentiment: Catharine Macaulay’s Republicanism

pp 91-112

6 - Between Liberalism and Republicanism: “Manners” in the Political Thought of Mercy Otis Warren

pp 113-124

PART III - THE TRANSITION FROM REPUBLICANISM TO LIBERALISM

7 - The Liberal and Democratic Republicanism of the First American State Constitutions, 1776-1780

pp 127-146

8 - Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850

pp 147-164

9 - The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860

pp 165-186

10 - Republicanism, Liberalism, and Market Society: Party Formation and Party Ideology in Germany and the United States, c. 1825-1850

pp 187-208

11 - Festive Culture and National Identity in America and Germany, 1760-1860

pp 209-234

12 - Charles Follen’s View of Republicanism in Germany and the United States, 1815-1840

pp 235-258

PART IV - THE LOGIC OF LIBERALISM

13 - “The Right to Possess All the Faculties that God Has Given”: Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought

pp 261-280

14 - Freedom of Contract and Freedom of Person: A Brief History of “Involuntary Servitude” in American Fundamental Law

pp 281-298

Index

pp 299-309