Highlights in the history of the American press : a book of readings / edited by Edwin H. Ford and Edwin Emery.

Table of Contents: “…The revolution and new republic : a nationalistic press -- part 4. Jacksonian democracy and a popular press -- part 5. …”
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The police power : patriarchy and the foundations of American government / Markus Dirk Dubber. by Dubber, Markus Dirk

Table of Contents: “…"The power to govern men and things" -- Police as Patria potestas -- Blackstone's police -- Continental police science -- Policing the new republic -- Definition by exclusion -- Police power and commerce power -- The forgotten power and the problem of legitimation -- The law of police : internal and external constraints -- Lochner's law and substantive due process -- Toward a critical analysis of police and punishment.…”
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The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China by Quanxi Gao, Wei Zhang, Feilong Tian. by Gao, Quanxi, Zhang, Wei, Tian, Feilong

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Inception: from Hundred Days Reform to Xinhai Revolution -- Failed Legacy: The Early Days of the New Republic -- Rule by the Party: Party Rule, Tutelage and Transformation towards A Modern Legal System -- Revolutionary Legal System: from Common Program to 1975 Constitution -- Transformation to Daily Routine: Reform and Governance -- Review and Outlook.…”
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If by sea : the forging of the American Navy : from the American Revolution to the War of 1812 / George C. Daughan. by Daughan, George C.

Table of Contents: “…Whaleboats and Men-of-War -- Launching the Continental Navy -- Battles in Charleston, New York, and New Jersey -- Saratoga and Philadelphia -- The French Alliance -- Denouement -- A New Republic -- Washington and the Federal Navy -- John Adams builds a navy -- The quasi-war with France -- The navy under Jefferson -- Peaceful coercion -- War clouds -- The navy surprises -- The navy established.…”
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The devil's chain : prostitution and social control in partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted. by Stauter-Halsted, Keely, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : reforming the national body -- Out of the shadows -- On the abyss : the turn to paid sex -- Sex in the bourgeois family -- Narratives of entrapment -- Trafficking and human migration -- The devil's chain -- Female activism and the shadow state -- The physician and the fallen woman -- Purity and danger : prostitution reform and the birth of Polish eugenics -- Sex in the new republic -- Conclusion : prostitution and the shaping of the national community.…”
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American Constitutional History. by Fruchtman, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Structure of the Book; Part 1: The New Republic, 1781-1828; 1 Ideological Origins of the New Republic; The Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention; Ratification and the Bill of Rights; 2 Representative and Constitutional Democracy; Judicial Review, Judicial Duty; Economic Policy in the New Republic; 3 Nationalization of the Constitution and Executive Power; Part 2: The Slave Republic, 1789-1877; 4 Commerce, Nullification, and Slavery; Other Economic Rulings; The Nullification Controversy; Dred Scott.…”
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The rule of law : 1603-1660 : crowns, courts and judges / James S. Hart Jr. by Hart, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Cromwellian Government -- 7. Law and the New Republic -- 8. The Good Constable.…”
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Before Haiti : race and citizenship in French Saint-Domingue / John D. Garrigus. by Garrigus, John D.

Table of Contents: “…The Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier -- Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s -- Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State -- Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years' War -- Citizenship and Racism in the New Republic Sphere -- The Rising Economic Power of Free People of Color in the 1780s -- Proving Free Colored Virtue -- Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitain Revolution -- Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish.…”
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Interpreting American military history at museums and historic sites / by Marc K. Blackburn. by Blackburn, Marc K.

Table of Contents: “…Interpretation -- Introduction to American military history -- Colonization and settlement (1607-1763) -- Revolution and the new republic: 1763-1815 -- The constitutional settlement, 1783-1815 -- The antebellum period, 1815-1860 -- The Civil War, 1860-1865 -- 1865-1914: internal and external expansion -- On the world's stage: 1914-1939 -- World War Two, 1941-1945 -- On the brink: the Cold War, 1945-1973 -- A world undone: the Cold War and beyond, 1973-present.…”
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Prostitution, modernity, and the making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920 / Tiffany A. Sippial. by Sippial, Tiffany A.

Table of Contents: “…Zones of delinquency, zones of desire : locating public women in the walled city, 1840-1868 -- Sex, war, and disease in the tropics : colonial conflict and the Cuban social body, 1868-1886 -- We the horizontals : redefining citizenship and challenging colonial authority, 1886-1890 -- A pearl in the mud : social regeneration, U.S. intervention, and the demise of the colonial order, 1890-1902 -- On the road to moral progress : the new republic and the abolition of regulated prostitution, 1902-1925.…”
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The engine of enterprise : credit in America / Rowena Olegario. by Olegario, Rowena

Table of Contents: “…"The Sound of Your Hammer": The Foundations of Credit in the New Republic -- Ch. 2. "To Be a Bankrupt Is Nothing": Credit, Enterprise, and Risk in the Antebellum Era -- Ch. 3. …”
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Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and Antebellum US literature / Jason Richards. by Richards, Jason, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.…”
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Jose Ortega y Gasset Nuevo Mundo Visión.

Table of Contents: “…Wealthy Family (3:20) -- Studies in Germany (4:11) -- Commercial Success (3:59) -- Speaking Out (2:06) -- Turn to Conservatism (4:52) -- Revolt of the Masses (4:15) -- Frustration with the New Republic (4:10) -- Trip to Hitler's Germany (1:33) -- Beginning of Civil War (4:49) -- Failure in Argentina (4:18) -- Return to Spain (3:48) -- Prestige Recovery (3:28) -- Death in 1955 (4:39)…”
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Jose Ortega y Gasset Nuevo Mundo Visión.

Table of Contents: “…Wealthy Family (3:20) -- Studies in Germany (4:11) -- Commercial Success (3:59) -- Speaking Out (2:06) -- Turn to Conservatism (4:52) -- Revolt of the Masses (4:15) -- Frustration with the New Republic (4:10) -- Trip to Hitler's Germany (1:33) -- Beginning of Civil War (4:49) -- Failure in Argentina (4:18) -- Return to Spain (3:48) -- Prestige Recovery (3:28) -- Death in 1955 (4:39)…”
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Tocqueville and his America / Arthur Kaledin. by Kaledin, Arthur, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A brief life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Part I: Triple-alienated man -- Identity in a time of historical transition -- Class: between two worlds -- Intimacy -- Ambition -- Melancholy -- Skeptical romantic -- Skeptical philosophe -- Skepticism and religion: "une ombre vaine" -- Doubt and the will to believe -- Exile: voiceless in Cannes -- Part II: The calling of politics -- Vocation: politics as calling -- Tocqueville's "beau rêve" -- Vocation: the responsibilities of political leaders -- The Dead Sea of politics -- Tocqueville's aristocratic liberalism -- Part III: Writing Democracy in America -- A moral landscape -- A moral history -- Escape -- The new world: fable, romance, history -- Tocqueville in the wilderness -- Transformations -- Beginning Democracy in America -- Influences: voices in the tower -- Writing as moral act -- History as moral drama -- The birth of a book -- Part IV: Tocqueville's America -- Tocqueville's American notebooks and Democracy in America -- Traveling through the new republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont -- Democratic religion: mad messiahs and chaste women -- Class in an egalitarian society -- Born-again America: the creation of an American identity -- Politics: order and disorder in the new republic -- A dark vision of democracy's prospects -- The democratic psyche and the hazards of equality -- A culture of extremes: the prospects for freedom in a culture without limits -- A brief chronological narrative of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.…”
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The American construction industry : its historical evolution and potential future / Brian Bowen. by Bowen, Brian

Table of Contents: “…. -- Developments in the New Republic -- 1783 to the Civil War -- USA from Civil War to 1900 -- 20th Century to World War II -- World War II to the Present Time -- Some Conclusions -- The Future.…”
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The King's Trial

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Apostles of the self-made man / by John G. Cawelti. by Cawelti, John G.

Table of Contents: “…Natural aristocracy and the new republic: the idea of mobility in the thought of Franklin and Jefferson -- 2. …”

Quixotic fictions of the USA, 1792-1815 / Sarah F. Wood. by Wood, Sarah Florence

Table of Contents: “…An 'inconsistent discourse' : Don Quixote in British letters -- Transatlantic Cervantics : Don Quixote in the New Republic -- City on the hill, Quixote in the cave : the politics of retreat in the fiction of Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- An alien's act of sedition : 'trans-Atlantic peculiarities' and North African attachments in The Algerian captive -- Private properties, public nuisance : Arthur Mervyn and the rise and fall of a Republican Quixote -- Nobody's Dulcinea : romantic fictions and Republican mothers in Tabitha Gilman Tenney's Female Quixoticism -- The underwhelming history of America's overbearing fathers : A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty.…”
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Religious pluralism in America : the contentious history of a founding ideal / William R. Hutchison. by Hutchison, William R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religious pluralism as a work in progress -- Here are no disputes : reputation and realities in the new republic -- Just behave yourself : pluralism as selective tolerance -- Marching to Zion : the Protestant establishment as a unifying force -- Repentance for our social sins : adjustments within the establishment -- In (partway) from the margins : pluralism as inclusion -- Surviving a while longer : the establishment under stress in the early twentieth century -- Don't change your name : early assaults on the melting pot ideal -- Protestant-Catholic-Jew : new mainstream, gropings toward a new pluralism -- Whose America is it anyway? …”
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