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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788396803321

Titolo

Practicing Democracy : Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War / / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Disciplina

320.97309/034

Soggetti

Political participation - United States - History - 20th century

Political participation - United States - History - 18th century

Political parties - United States - History - 19th century

Political parties - United States - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1815-1861

United States Politics and government 1789-1815

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.