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

在美国早期的国家时期，建立新国家的必要性要求建立将不同血统的人口结合在一起的社会规范。为了满足这一需求，从殖民时期继承下来的政治、经济、宗教、性别等规范在考虑各种地方和种族差异的过程中发生了转变。对于殖民时期和民族时期的学生来说，有必要结合其他国家的比较案例，探讨美国18世纪和19世纪这场戏剧性的社会文化变迁中出现的公民社会的历史。

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.