TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bergmann, William H.
AB - Kristopher Maulden. The Federalist Frontier: Settler sales. Differ ences between Federalists and Jeffersonian Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783–1840. Columbia: Republicans, here and elsewhere, seem to be more University of Missouri Press, 2019. Pp. xvii, 261. Cloth political rhetoric than substance and policy, particu- $40.00. larly as Republicans often implemented remarkably similar expansionist policies and institutional devel- A traditional way of teaching United States western opment. Although this might characterize the legacies expansion is to characterize it as a success of Mauldin asserts, it’s unclear where the boundary is Jeffersonian Republicans who opened land to ben- between a specific Federalist legacy and relatively efit y eoman farmers. Kristopher Maulden’s recent nonpartisan regional consensus. book, The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the The dramatically diminished political authority Old Northwest, a recent addition to the Studies in of Federalists after 1800 leads Maulden to examine Constitutional Democracy series edited by Justin B. Federalist influences under the new Republican Dyer and Jeffrey L. Pasley, reframes that narrative regime. He follows the political maneuvering of by placing Federalists at the center and tracing the Federalists like Charles Hammond, who did what influence of their institutions and policies well into he could to steer 
TI - Kristopher Maulden. The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783–1840.
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhac042
DA - 2022-04-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/kristopher-maulden-the-federalist-frontier-settler-politics-in-the-old-XLbOCFBwgU
SP - 508
EP - 509
VL - 127
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -