TAYLOR, John, 1753-1824


Extended Bibliography

Bailor, Keith M. “John Taylor of Caroline: Continuity, Change, and Discontinuity in Virginia’s Sentiments toward Slavery, 1790-1820.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 75 (July 1967): 290-304.

Barton, Tom K. “John Taylor of Caroline: Republicanism in the Kentucky Constitution of 1792.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 73 (April 1975): 105-21.

Craven, Avery. “John Taylor and Southern Agriculture.” Journal of Southern History 4 (May 1938): 137-47.

Dauer, Manning J., and Hans Hammond. “John Taylor: Democrat or Aristocrat?” Journal of Politics 6 (November 1944): 381-403.

Dodd, William E. “John Taylor, of Caroline, Prophet of Secession.” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College 2 (June 1908): 214-52.

___, ed. “Letters of John Taylor, of Caroline County, Virginia.” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College 2 (June 1908): 253-353.

Drell, Bernard. “John Taylor of Caroline and the Preservation of an Old Social Order.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 46 (October 1938): 285-98.

Duke, Maurice. “John Taylor of Caroline, 1753-1824: Notes Toward a Bibliography.” Early American Literature 6 (Spring 1971): 69-72.

Dunlap, Orell Alva. “The Economic Ideas of John Taylor.” Master’s thesis, Duke University, 1934.

Foshee, Andrew W. “Jeffersonian Political Economy and the Classical Republican Tradition: Jefferson, Taylor, and the Agrarian Republic.” History of Political Economy 17 (Winter 1985): 523-50.

Grampp, William D. “John Taylor: Economist of Southern Agrarianism.” Southern Economic Journal 11 (January 1945): 255-68.

Harp, Gillis, J. “Taylor, Calhoun, and the Decline of a Theory of Political Disharmony.” Journal of the History of Ideas 46 (January-March 1985): 107-20.

Hill, C. William, Jr. “Contrasting Themes in the Political Theories of Jefferson, Calhoun, and John Taylor of Caroline.” Publius 6 (Summer 1976): 73-91.

___. The Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.

Lytle, Andrew Nelson. “John Taylor and the Political Economy of Agriculture.” American Review 3 (September 1934): 432-47; (October 1934): 630-43; 4 (November 1934): 84-99.

MacLeod, Duncan. “The Political Economy of John Taylor of Caroline.” Journal of American Studies 14 (December 1980): 387-406.

Mudge, Eugene TenBroeck. The Social Philosophy of John Taylor of Caroline: A Study in Jeffersonian Democracy. 1939. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968.

Riven, Audrey A. “John Taylor, John C. Calhoun, and Roger B. Taney: Three Views of States Rights.” Master’s thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1960.

Shalhope, Robert E. “The Arator Essays and the ‘Fallacy of the Prevalent Proof’.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 84 (July 1976): 283-86.

___. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.

Simms, Henry Harrison. Life of John Taylor: The Story of a Brilliant Leader in the Early Virginia States Rights School. Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1932.

Stohrer, Freda F. “Arator: A Publishing History.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 88 (October 1980): 442-45.

Taylor, John. Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political, in Sixty-four Numbers. 1813. New ed., edited by Melvin E. Bradford. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1977. A series of essays published in The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six (Washington), December 25, 1810 et seq.

___. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated. 1820. Facsimile ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.

___. Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794. Edited by Gaillard Hunt. Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1905.

___. An Inquiry into the Principles and Tendency of Certain Public Measures. Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1794.

___. An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States. 1814. Reprint, edited by Loren Baritz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1969.

___. New Views of the Constitution of the United States. 1823. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

___. Tyranny Unmasked. 1822. Reprint, with new introduction by Forrest McDonald. Cumberland, VA: James River Press, 1990.

Thompson, Carol L. “John Taylor of Caroline: Forgotten Prophet.”Current History 13 (November 1947): 264-69.

Wharton, Leslie. Polity and the Public Good: Conflicting Theories of Republican Government in the New Nation. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980.

Wright, Benjamin F., Jr. “The Philosopher of Jeffersonian Democracy.” American Political Science Review 22 (November 1928): 870-92.