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Affairs of Party : The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. /
Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became De...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | The North's Civil War
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the 1998 Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART 1: LEARNING TO BE DEMOCRATS
- 1. Partisan Roots
- 2. Learning to Be Americans: Schooling and Political Culture
- 3. A Sense of Party: George Bancroft, Martin Van Buren, and Samuel Cox
- PART II: THINKING AS DEMOCRATS
- 4. The Revival of Republicanism
- 5. Conservative Naturalism: The Racial Views of Stephen Douglas and the Delaware Bayards
- 6. The Negro Issue: Popular Culture, Racial Attitudes, and Democratic Policy
- PART III: BEHAVING AS DEMOCRATS
- 7. The Meaning of Elections
- 8. Southern Connections and Party Nationalism
- Conclusion: The Democracy as Imitator and Shaper
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index