MARC Record from Miami University of Ohio

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050 00 $aE310$b.F97 2006
100 1 $aFurstenberg, François
245 10 $aIn the name of the father :$bWashington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation /$cFrançois Furstenberg
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2006
300 $a335 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index
505 0 $aWhat the nation was up against -- The farewell -- The threats: geographical, political, international -- Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism -- 1. The apotheosis of George Washington -- Washington dies -- The nation's uncertain future -- Civic texts: creating a new future -- Partisanship -- Nationalism and religion -- Resignation, gratitude, and consent -- 2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation -- George's death and Martha's predicament -- Slavery and the national family -- Washington as abolitionist -- Washington and paternalism -- Toward a consenting republic? -- 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel -- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator" -- Weems and antipartisanship -- Weem's Washington: a primer -- An "ad captandum" book -- Discriminating the "populi" -- Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts -- 4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American -- Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature -- From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual -- Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves -- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy -- 5. Slavery and the American individual -- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy -- Fit to be free -- The extended legacy of civic texts
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650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century
650 0 $aTextbooks$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century
650 0 $aTextbooks$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1789-1815
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