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Appleby, Joyce Oldham was born on April 9, 1929 in Omaha. Daughter of Junius G. and Edith (Cash) Oldham.
( In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors ...)
In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They infused in it their vision of a society of economically progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's first popular political movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the "more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution, they expected to build a strong central government led by the revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians: interlopers, émigrés, polemicists—what the Federalists called the "mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of traditional European notions of order and authority came under attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial agricutlure that gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus, capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision. Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent fusion of morality and materialism.
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( Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color ev...)
Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign, liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. Expressed in the nation-building acts of revolution and constitution-writing, liberalism both structured and limited Americans' sense of reality for two centuries. The nation's scholars were unable to break away from liberalism's pervasive hold on the American mind until the last generation--when they recovered the lost world of classical republicanism. Ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good, this form of republicanism held sway among the founding fathers before the triumph of liberal thought, with its simple, egalitarian, rational, and individualistic emphasis. The two concepts, as Joyce Appleby shows, posed choices for eighteenth-century thinkers much as they have divided twentieth-century scholars. Entering one of the liveliest debates in the scholarly world about our ideological roots, Appleby follows the labyrinthine controversies that these two perspectives have generated in their day and in ours. In doing so, she addresses the tensions that remain to be resolved in the democratic societies of the late twentieth century--the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom.
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( In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors ...)
In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They infused in it their vision of a society of economically progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's first popular political movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the "more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution, they expected to build a strong central government led by the revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians: interlopers, émigrés, polemicists—what the Federalists called the "mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of traditional European notions of order and authority came under attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial agricutlure that gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus, capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision. Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent fusion of morality and materialism.
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( "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusua...)
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."―Booklist
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Appleby, Joyce Oldham was born on April 9, 1929 in Omaha. Daughter of Junius G. and Edith (Cash) Oldham.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1950; Master of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Claremont Graduate School, 1966.
With, Mademoiselle magazine, 1950-1952;
assistant professor of history, San Diego State University, 1967-1970;
associate professor, San Diego State University, 1970-1973;
professor of history, associate dean, College Arts and Letters, 1973-1975;
professor, College Arts and Letters, 1976-1981. Visiting associate professor University of California, Irvine, 1975-1976. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1978-1979, professor of history, since 1981.
Visiting fellow St. Catherine's College, U. Oxford, 1983. Harmsworth professor American History, U. Oxford, 1990-1991. Board fellows Claremont Graduate school and University Center, 1970-1973.
( In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors ...)
( In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors ...)
( Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color ev...)
( The Description for this book, Economic Thought and Ide...)
( "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusua...)
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Smithsonian Institute (council), American History Association (president), Organization American Historians (president), Institute Early American History and Culture (council 1980-1986, chairman 1983-1989).
Children: Ann Lansburgh Caylor, Mark Lansburgh, Frank Bell Appleby.