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Practicing democracy : popular politics in the United States from the constitution to the Civil War /

"In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peart, Daniel, 1985- (Editor ), Smith, Adam I. P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith
  • "Parties are unavoidable" : path dependence and the origins of party politics in the United States / Douglas Bradburn
  • Rethinking the origins of partisan democracy in the United States, 1795-1840 / Reeve Huston
  • Party, nation, and cultural rupture : the crisis of the American Civil War / John L. Brooke
  • Jeffersonian parties, politics, and participation : the tortuous trajectory of American democracy / Andrew W. Robertson
  • An "era of no feelings"? : rethinking the relationship between political parties and popular participation in the early United States / Daniel Peart
  • Was there a second party system? : Illinois as a case study in antebellum politics / Graham A. Peck
  • Legitimacy, localism, and the first party system / Kenneth Owen
  • "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" : immigrants and popular politics in precivil war New York / Tyler Anbinder
  • Small men, best men, and the big city : reconstructing political culture in antebellum Philadelphia / Andrew Heath
  • Approaches to democratization : engagement versus capability / Johann N. Neem
  • Afterword / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith.