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In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes : The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820, Paperback / softback Book

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes : The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 Paperback / softback

Part of the Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia series

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In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic.

Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity.

Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar.

Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade.

They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale.

While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says.

Exploring the interplay of region, race, class, and gender in the development of a national identity, he demonstrates that an acknowledgment of the diversity and conflict inherent in the process is crucial to any understanding of American politics and culture. |Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South.

Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct.

In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the mid-18th century to conservative and culturally dominant institutions in the 20th century, Harvey explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural history.

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