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Annbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. Publisher: New York : Free Press, ©2001.
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Boydston, Jeanne. "The Woman Who Wasn't There: Women's Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism in the United States." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer, 1996. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Bynum, Victoria E. "Punishing Deviant Women: The State as Patriarch" in Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South, pp. 88-110. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press: 1992.
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Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860, pp. 59-191. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990.
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Clark, Christopher. Social Change in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, pp. 122-206. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
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Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New-York. New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
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Earle, Jonathan H. "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, and Free Men: The Election of 1848" in Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854, pp. 163-199. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press: 2004.
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Fehrenbacher, Don. E. "The New Political History and the Coming Civil War." Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1985), pp. 117-142. University of California Press.
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Feller, Daniel. "The Spirit of Improvement" and "The Law of Enterprise" in The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840, pp. 24-32 & 33-52. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
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Foner, Eric. "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions" & "Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War" in Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War, pp. 15-33. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Freehling, William W. "The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War" in Why the Civil War Came, pp. 127-175. Edited by Gabor S. Boritt. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Gienapp, William E. "'No Bed of Roses': James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and Presidential Leadership in the Civil War Era" in James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s, pp. 93-122. Edited by Michael J. Birkner. Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1996.
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Gilfoyle, Timothy. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920, pp. 78-116. New York: Norton, 1992.
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Gilje, Paul A. "The Rise of Capitalism in the Early Republic," in Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 16, No. 2, Special Issue on Capitalism in the Early Republic (Summer, 1996), pp. 159-181. Published by: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Gilje, Paul A. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights" in Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, pp. 163-191. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
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Holt, Michael F. "The Mysterious Disappearances of the American Whig Party,"Two Roads to Sumter," & "Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Union" in Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln, pp. 236-264; 302-312; 313-322. Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1992.
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Holton, Woody. "Free Virginians Versus Slaves and Governor Dunmore" in Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press 1999.
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Horton, Lois E. "From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter, 1999, Special Issue on Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Huston, James L. "Abolitionists, Political Economists, and Capitalism." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall, 2000. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement, Ch.1-3. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1998.
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Johnson, Paul E. "Economy" & "Society" in Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, pp. 15-36, 37-61, . New York : Hill and Wang, 1978.
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Johnson, Paul E. "Making a World Out of Slaves" in Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, ch.3. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Ketcham, Ralph. Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829, pp. 89-161. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
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Larson, John L. The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good, pp. 39-140. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Mellish, Joanne P. "A 'Negro Spirit': Em-bodying Difference" in Disowning slavery : gradual emancipation and "race" in New England, 1780-1860, pp.119-162. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
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Murrin, John. "The Great Inversion, or Court Versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816)" in Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776, edited by J. G. A. Pocock, pp. 368-453. Princeton, 1980.
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Novak, William J. The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, pp.83-189. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
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Silby, Joel H. "'To One or Another of These Parties Every Man Belongs': The American Political Experience from Andrew Jackson to the Civil War" in Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics, pp. 65-92. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
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Skeen, C. Edward. "'Vox Populi, Vox Dei': The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Rise of Popular Politics". Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 253-274. Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Stampp, Kenneth M. "The Irrepressible Conflict" in The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War, pp.191-245. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Stewart, James B. "Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 691-712, Special Issue on Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic. Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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Taylor, Alan. "From Fathers to Friends of the People: Political Personae in the Early Republic" in Federalists Reconsidered, pp. 225-245, edited by Doron S. Ben-Atar and Barbara Oberg. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
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Thornton, J. Mills. "The Ethic of Substance and the Originsof Southern Secession." Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 67-85, edited by Robert B. Jones. Published by the Tennessee Historical Society in cooperation with the Tennessee Historical Commission. (Download PDF)
Thornton, Tamara P. "A Great Machine" or a "Beast of Prey": A Boston Corporation and Its Rural Debtors in an Ageof Capitalist Transformation. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 567-597. Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the EarlyAmerican Republic.
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Varon, Elizabeth R. Disunion: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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Varon, Elizabeth R. "This Most Important Charity: The American Colonization Society" in We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
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Watson, Harry L. "Republican Theory and Practice" in Liberty and power: the politics of Jacksonian America, pp. 42-72. New York : Hill and Wang, 1990.
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Wood, Gordon S. "Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution" in Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, pp. 69-109. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
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Wood, Kirsten E. "'One Woman so Dangerous to Public Morals': Gender and Power in the Eaton Affair." Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 237-276. Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the EarlyAmerican Republic.
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Zagarri., Rosemarie. "The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America", in The William and Mary Querterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1998) pp. 203-230.
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Zagarri, Rosemarie. Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic, pp. 31-36. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
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