Beyond the founders : new approaches to the political history of the early American republic / / edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (450 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.4
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - United States - Historiography; Democracy - United States - Historiography
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Historiography
• Altri autori: PasleyJeffrey L. <1964-> RobertsonAndrew W <1951-> (Andrew Whitmore) WaldstreicherDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond the Founders; PART I. DEMOCRACY AND OTHER PRACTICES; PART II. GENDER, RACE, AND OTHER IDENTITIES; PART III. NORMS AND FORMS; PART IV. INTERESTS, SPACES, AND OTHER STRUCTURES; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy.Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the founders
• ISBN: 1-4696-0524-4; 0-8078-9883-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817988903321
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