Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Princeton University Press, 2017) tells the story of revolutionary elites in the 1780s, and their struggles to impose their power and justify their status in an era of emerging democratic movements. This is what the American Historical Review said about it:
"If your interest is the American Revolution or the road to the U.S. Constitution, you should read this book. If your interest is elite ideology or plebeian mentalité, speculators or squatters, bankers or merchants, debtors or consumers, restriction or advancement of slavery, government mercenaries or agrarian regulators, revolution or counterrevolution, you should read this book. If you have graduate students and are teaching the Revolution, they should read this book. If you have undergraduates and are teaching the Revolution, you could easily assign this book, but after you read it, you will need to update your lectures." I have also published some scholarly articles: "'A Very Promising Appearance': Credit, Honor, and Deception in the Emerging Market for American Debt, 1784-92," William and Mary Quarterly 75.4 (Oct. 2018) ""'What Ought to Belong to Merit Only': Debating Status and Heredity in the New American Republic," Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 40.2 (June 2017) "The Revolutionary Transformation of American Merchant Networks: Carter & Wadsworth and Their World, 1775-1800," Enterprise & Society 18.1 (March 2017) |