Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American RepublicUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 - 271 Seiten Simon Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, nonelite American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of many of the patriotic holidays we still celebrate coincided with the emergence of the first two-party system, Newman observes; as leaders of the Federalist and Democratic Republican factions vied to take fullest advantage of the parades and festivals that filled the public sphere, the participation and support of a wider public became vital to their parties' success. With the political songs they sang, the liberty poles they raised, and the partisan badges they wore, ordinary Americans helped shape a new national politics destined to replace the regional practices of the colonial era. |
Inhalt
The Significance of Popular Political Culture | 1 |
Resistance Revolution and Nationhood The Origins of a National Popular Political Culture | 11 |
The Partisan Politics of Popular Leadership | 44 |
The Popular Politics of Independence Day | 83 |
Celebrating the French Revolution | 120 |
Songs Signs and Symbols The Everyday Discourse of Popular Politics | 152 |
Conclusion The Regularization of Popular Political Culture | 186 |
Abbreviations | 193 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography | 245 |
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Ameri American Revolution anniversary August Aurora badges black Americans black cockade Boston Gazette British celebrations Chapel Hill Charleston citizens civic feasts cockade colonies commemorated Constitution cratic Republican crowd actions Democratic Republican party Diary drank early national Early Republic elite February Federal Federalist festive culture flags Fourth of July France French Revolution French Revolutionary festivals George Washington groups History honor ideology Independence Day Independent Chronicle January Jay Treaty Jefferson John Adams July Fourth leaders liberty and equality liberty cap liberty pole liberty tree March Maryland Gazette militia companies national popular political New-York newspapers November opposition ordinary Americans participation partisan politics patriotic Pennsylvania Philadelphia policies popular political culture Porcupine's Gazette president procession radical rites and symbols ritual role salute significance songs South Carolina South Carolina Gazette taverns tion toasts towns tri-colored cockades United University Press Valmy Virginia Gazette Washington's birthday white male white women William York City
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