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Celebrating the Fourth : Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic
author
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Travers, Len.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558490604
print isbn13
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9781558490604
ebook isbn13
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9780585084220
language
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English
subject
Fourth of July celebrations--History.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
E286.A184 1997eb
ddc
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394.2/634
subject
:
Fourth of July celebrations--History.
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Celebrating the Fourth
Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic
Len Travers
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst
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This book is published with the support and cooperation of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Copyright 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 96-18431 ISBN 1-55849-060-4 Designed by Sally Ann Nichols Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Travers, Len, 1952 Celebrating the fourth : Independence Day and the rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic / Len Travers. p. cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-060-4 (alk. paper) 1. Fourth of July celebrationsHistory. I. Title. E286.A184 1997 394.2'634dc2096-18431 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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To Mom and Dad, who had faith in their prodigal son. And to Carolyn.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1 "Excellent Political Moves"
15
2 Spiritual Blood
31
3 A Partisan Holiday
69
4 Observing the Fourth
107
5 "Even to Blood"
155
6 Making Over the Fourth
191
7 Jubilee
218
Notes
229
Bibliography
263
Index
273
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Acknowledgments
It is an unfortunate fact that few people read acknowledgment pages, and that's a pity. By the time an author gets to the stage of writing this part of a manuscript, he has a sharpened sense of indebtedness to a raft of people whose names do not appear on the cover, but whose contribution to the finished work was nevertheless vital. It is a last chance for the author to pay the properly humble respects to the advisers, friends, colleagues, librarians, and archivists who saved him so much work or embarrassment, and he would like the world to know their worth.
Alan Taylor deserves most of the credit for encouraging the growth of what began as a seminar paper, and none of the blame that may accrue for what it has become. With patient exhortation and much red ink, he prodded me to rethink, revise, rewrite, and publish, and has almost cured me of my abuse of the passive voice. Without his con-
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tinual encouragement and cajoling (like nagging, but in a positive way), this study might not have expanded far beyond the limits of its original geographic and conceptual bounds. His conscientious attention to his students' professional welfare brought me opportunities to present earlier versions of this study at the Salem Conference, and to the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, which in turn brought my work to the attention of Paul Wright, of the University of Massachusetts Press. The result you have before you.
At Professor Taylor's urging, I submitted the revised seminar paper for inclusion in the Ninth Salem Conference schedule. Barbara Ward's acceptance of that paper brought my topic much-needed exposure and criticism from colleagues. The Essex Institute later published the paper in its journal.
In each of the cities singled out in these pages for study, I received open-handed aid and advice. My sincere thanks goes to the staffs of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Mugar Library at Boston University, and the Boston Public Library; the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester; The Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; and the Library Company of Charleston, the South Carolina Historical Society, and the College of Charleston, for their patient and professional help. Gathering Philadelphia material was immeasurably aided by a fellowship from the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and from Wayne Bodle's helpful advice. In Charleston, C. Patton Hash was my guide through the collections in the Charleston Historical Society. Conrad Wright, my boss at the Massachusetts Historical Society, generously extended me the time needed for rewrites.
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