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Rude republic Americans and their politics in the nineteenth century /

What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altschuler, Glenn C (Autor)
Otros Autores: Blumin, Stuart M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The View from Clifford's Window
  • Chapter 1. Political Innovation and Popular Response in Jack Downing's America
  • Chapter 2. The Maturing Party System: The Rude Republic and Its Discontents
  • Chapter 3. Political Men: Patterns and Meanings of Political Activism in Antebellum America
  • Chapter 4. A World beyond Politics
  • Chapter 5. Civil Crisis and the Developing State
  • Chapter 6. People and Politics: The Urbanization of Political Consciousness
  • Chapter 7. Leviathan: Parties and Political Life in Post-Civil War America
  • Chapter 8. An Excess and a Dearth of Democracy: Patronage, Voting, and Political Engagement in the Gilded Age and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Index