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The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900 - Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality (Paperback)
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The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900 - Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality (Paperback)
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Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the
colonists' declatation of independence from England, nor from the
political union of the states under the Constitution of 1789. It
was, rather, the product of organizations which socialized
individuals to a national outlook. These institutions were the
private corportions which Americans used after 1790 to carry on
their central activities of production. The book is in three parts.
In the first part the social and economic development of the
American colonies is considered. In New England, population growth
led to the breakdown of community - and the migration of people to
both the cities and the frontier. New England's merchants and
professional tried to maintain community leadership in the context
of capitalism and democracy and developed a remarkable dependence
on pricate corporations and the eleemosynary trust, devices that
enabled them to exert influence disproportionate to their numbers.
Part two looks at the problem of order and authority after 1790.
Tracing the role of such New England-influenced corporate
institutions as colleges, religious bodies, professional societeis,
and businesses, Hall shows how their promoters sought to "civilize"
the increasingly diverse and dispersed American people. With
Jefferson's triumph in 1800. these institutions turned to new means
of engineering consent, evangelical religion, moral fegorm, and
education. The third part of this volume examines the fruition a=of
these corporatist efforts. The author looks at the Civil War as a
problem in large-scale organization, and the pre- and post-war
emergence of a national administrative elite and national
institutions of business and culture. Hall concludes with an
evaluation of the organizational components of nationality and a
consideration of the precedent that the past sets for the creation
of internationality.
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