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Titolo |
Practicing Democracy : Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War / / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith, editors |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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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 |
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United States Politics and government 1815-1861 |
United States Politics and government 1789-1815 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 : |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between political parties and popular participation, and the place that parties occupied within the wider world of United States politics. In recent years, historians of the early republic have demolished old assumptions about low rates of political participation and shallow popular partisanship in the age of Jefferson-raising the question of how, if at all, Jacksonian politics departed from earlier norms. This book reaffirms the significance of a transition in political practices during the 1820s and 1830s but casts the transformation in a new light. Whereas the traditional narrative is one of a party-driven democratic awakening, the contributors to this volume challenge the correlation of party with democracy. They both critique constricting definitions of legitimate democratic practices in the decades following the ratification of the Constitution and emphasize the proliferation of competing public voices in the buildup to the Civil War. Taken together, these essays offer a new way of thinking about American politics across the traditional dividing line of 1828 and suggest a novel approach to the long-standing question of what it meant to be part of "We the People." Contributors: Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University · Douglas Bradburn, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon · John L. Brooke, The Ohio State University · Andrew Heath, University of Sheffield · Reeve Huston, Duke University · Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University · Kenneth Owen, University of Illinois, Springfield · Graham A. Peck, Saint Xavier University · Andrew W. Robertson, Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Lehman College, CUNY |
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