John Lauritz Larson is Professor of History and Michael A. Morrison is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. They served as editors of the Journal of the Early Republic for ten and fourteen years, respectively.

• Introduction: What Is This Book?PART I. CONTINENTAL POSSESSIONS1. Continental Possessions-Three Deepening Trends-AndrÉs ResÉndez2. Whither the Rest of the Continent?-Elizabeth A. Fenn3. Continental Drifts-James F. Brooks4. Continental Crossings-Alan TaylorPART II. PURSUING HAPPINESS5. Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?-Stewart Davenport6. The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic-Christopher Clark7. The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship-Barbara M. Tucker and Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.8. Economic Landscapes Yet to be Discovered: The Early American Republic and Historians' Unsubtle Adoption of Political Economy-James L. HustonPART III. INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPES9. Environmental Stewardship and Decline in Old New England-Brian Donohue10. Re-Greening the South and Southernizing the Rest-Mart A. Stewart11. Mudslides Make Good History-Conevery Bolton Valencius12. Down, Down, Down, No More: Environmental History Moves Beyond Declension-Ted SteinbergPART IV. COMMODIFICATION OF PEOPLE13. The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith-David Waldstreicher14. Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations-Amy Dru Stanley15. Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideologyin the Early Republic-Stephanie Smallwood16. The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question-Walter JohnsonPART V. PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND SPIRIT WORLDS17. Sex and Sexuality: The Public, the Private, and the Spirit Worlds-Patricia Cline Cohen18. Space in the Early American City-Bernard Herman19. A History of all Religions-Leigh E. Schmidt20. Questions, Suspicions, Speculations-David S. ShieldsAfterword: The Quest for Universal UnderstandingIndex

"Succeeds at challenging students, researchers, and teachers to ponder the future of the field." (Journal of Southern History)

John Lauritz Larson is Professor of History and Michael A. Morrison is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. They served as editors of the Journal of the Early Republic for ten and fourteen years, respectively.

• Introduction: What Is This Book?PART I. CONTINENTAL POSSESSIONS1. Continental Possessions-Three Deepening Trends-AndrÉs ResÉndez2. Whither the Rest of the Continent?-Elizabeth A. Fenn3. Continental Drifts-James F. Brooks4. Continental Crossings-Alan TaylorPART II. PURSUING HAPPINESS5. Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?-Stewart Davenport6. The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic-Christopher Clark7. The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship-Barbara M. Tucker and Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.8. Economic Landscapes Yet to be Discovered: The Early American Republic and Historians' Unsubtle Adoption of Political Economy-James L. HustonPART III. INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPES9. Environmental Stewardship and Decline in Old New England-Brian Donohue10. Re-Greening the South and Southernizing the Rest-Mart A. Stewart11. Mudslides Make Good History-Conevery Bolton Valencius12. Down, Down, Down, No More: Environmental History Moves Beyond Declension-Ted SteinbergPART IV. COMMODIFICATION OF PEOPLE13. The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith-David Waldstreicher14. Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations-Amy Dru Stanley15. Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideologyin the Early Republic-Stephanie Smallwood16. The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question-Walter JohnsonPART V. PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND SPIRIT WORLDS17. Sex and Sexuality: The Public, the Private, and the Spirit Worlds-Patricia Cline Cohen18. Space in the Early American City-Bernard Herman19. A History of all Religions-Leigh E. Schmidt20. Questions, Suspicions, Speculations-David S. ShieldsAfterword: The Quest for Universal UnderstandingIndex

"Succeeds at challenging students, researchers, and teachers to ponder the future of the field." (Journal of Southern History)

John Lauritz Larson is Professor of History and Michael A. Morrison is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. They served as editors of the Journal of the Early Republic for ten and fourteen years, respectively.

• Introduction: What Is This Book?PART I. CONTINENTAL POSSESSIONS1. Continental Possessions-Three Deepening Trends-AndrÉs ResÉndez2. Whither the Rest of the Continent?-Elizabeth A. Fenn3. Continental Drifts-James F. Brooks4. Continental Crossings-Alan TaylorPART II. PURSUING HAPPINESS5. Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?-Stewart Davenport6. The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic-Christopher Clark7. The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship-Barbara M. Tucker and Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.8. Economic Landscapes Yet to be Discovered: The Early American Republic and Historians' Unsubtle Adoption of Political Economy-James L. HustonPART III. INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPES9. Environmental Stewardship and Decline in Old New England-Brian Donohue10. Re-Greening the South and Southernizing the Rest-Mart A. Stewart11. Mudslides Make Good History-Conevery Bolton Valencius12. Down, Down, Down, No More: Environmental History Moves Beyond Declension-Ted SteinbergPART IV. COMMODIFICATION OF PEOPLE13. The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith-David Waldstreicher14. Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations-Amy Dru Stanley15. Commodified Freedom: Interrogating the Limits of Anti-Slavery Ideologyin the Early Republic-Stephanie Smallwood16. The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question-Walter JohnsonPART V. PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND SPIRIT WORLDS17. Sex and Sexuality: The Public, the Private, and the Spirit Worlds-Patricia Cline Cohen18. Space in the Early American City-Bernard Herman19. A History of all Religions-Leigh E. Schmidt20. Questions, Suspicions, Speculations-David S. ShieldsAfterword: The Quest for Universal UnderstandingIndex

"Succeeds at challenging students, researchers, and teachers to ponder the future of the field." (Journal of Southern History)