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Moral Visions and Material Ambitions - Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836 (Hardcover)
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Moral Visions and Material Ambitions - Philadelphia Struggles to Define the Republic, 1776-1836 (Hardcover)
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No single vision for the future of America existed after the
Revolution. In light of social and economic changes, America's
scope shifted from community-mindedness, the very heart of the
republican ideal, to economic individualism. In Moral Visions and
Material Ambitions, A. Kristen Foster describes how eager young
entrepreneurs in Philadelphia manipulated America's moral vision of
a classical republic to facilitate their own material ambitions,
fostered by the free market economy that arose between 1776 and
1836. As market developments changed economic relationships in the
city, men and women used the Revolution's republican language to
help explain what was happening to them, and in the process they
helped redefine class structure in Philadelphia. This study
explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its
powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on
their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and
economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of
the country.
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