In the Early Republic, the United States remained firmly within the British Empire of Goods, reflecting a sense of cultural insecurity that haunted the newly independent nation. At the same time, many Americans increasingly turned to French goods. What did these things mean to American consumers? As a cultural history of French things in the Early American Republic, Dr. Nadine Klopfer’s project tells a story of nation-building and social distinction in the post-revolutionary United States as an entangled history of trade, taste, and things, while shedding new light on French-American relations around 1800.

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