Creating Public Cultures : Continuity and Discontinuity of Social Norms in the United States from the Colonial to the Early National Period

在美国建国初期，建立新国家的必要性要求建立社会规范，将不同出身的人口联系在一起。为了满足这一需求，在考虑到各种地方和种族差异的过程中，从殖民时期继承下来的政治、经济、宗教、性别等方面的规范都进行了改造。对于研究殖民时期和民族时期的学生来说，有必要在考虑其他国家的比较案例的同时，研究18世纪和19世纪美国从这一戏剧性的社会和文化变革中产生的公民社会的历史。

In the early national period in the United States, the necessity of creating the new nation called for social norms which bound together a population of different origins. To meet this demand, the norms inherited from the colonial period in politics, economy, religion, gender, and so forth, were transformed in the process of taking into account a variety of local and ethnic differences. It is necessary for students of both the colonial and national periods to inquire into the history of civil society which emerged from this dramatic social and cultural change in the 18^th-and 19^th-century United States, taking into consideration the comparative cases of other nations.