George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the firstpresidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoralimpasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguablythe most controversial and consequential election in American history. Focusing onthe wide range of possible outcomes of the 1800--1801 melee, this collection ofessays situates the American "Revolution of 1800" in a broad context ofgeo-political and racial developments in the Atlantic world as a whole. In essayswritten expressly for this volume, leading historians of the period examine theelectoral, social, and political outcome of Jefferson's election in discussionsstrikingly relevant in the aftermath of the 2000election.

Contributors

JoyceAppleby, University of California, Los AngelesMichael Bellesiles, EmoryUniversityJeanne Boydston, University of WisconsinSeth Cotlar, WillametteUniversityGregory Evans Dowd, University of Notre DameLaurent Dubois, Michigan StateUniversityDouglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, SyracuseJoanne Freeman, YaleUniversityJames E. Lewis Jr., independent scholar Robert M. S. McDonald, UnitedStates Military Academy, West PointJames Oakes, City University of New York GraduateCenterJeffrey Pasley, University of Missouri, ColumbiaJack N. Rakove, StanfordUniversityBethel Saler, Haverford CollegeJames Sidbury, University of TexasAlanTaylor, University of California, Davis