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03726aam a2200505 i 4500 001 10E2FCA4621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170418s2017 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016047704 020 $a 0691172668 020 $a 9780691172668 035 $a (OCoLC)980988188 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d XFF $d AXV $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E303 $b .C87 2017 082 00 $a 303.3/72097309033 $2 23 084 $a PHI019000 $a HIS031000 $a HIS036000 $a PHI019000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Cutterham, Tom, $d 1987- $e author. 245 10 $a Gentlemen revolutionaries : $b power and justice in the new American republic / $c Tom Cutterham. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a x, 191 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 2 $a "In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's 'lower sort' as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Inheritance -- Obedience -- Justice -- Capital -- Rebellion. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1789. 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Upper class $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Ideals (Philosophy) $x History $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Social justice $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Social status $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Social control $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y To 1865. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Revolutionary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY / Political. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213023058.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802031151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=10E2FCA4621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search