Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Version of the 1790's

The "Jeffersonian Republicans: The Triumph of America's First Popular Political Movement" is a groundbreaking book that delves into the fusion of ideas and circumstances that led to the triumph of America's first popular political movement in 1800.

This comprehensive study examines how the Jeffersonians, led by Thomas Jefferson, manned by a new generation of popular interlopers, émigrés, polemicists, and capitalism, unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states to mobilize against the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government.

The book provides a detailed account of how the Jeffersonians' radical beliefs gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past, and how they transformed the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government.

This product summary highlights the key points of the book, including the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson, the Federalists' efforts to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians, and the transformation of the 1790s into an age of passion.