The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln
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- ISBN: 0393058204 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xxiii, 1,044 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Norton, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I: The crisis of the new order. American democracy in a revolutionary age ; The Republican interest and the self-created democracy ; The making of Jeffersonian democracy ; Jefferson's two presidencies ; Nationalism and the War of 1812 -- II: Democracy ascendant. The era of bad feelings ; Slavery, compromise, and democratic politics ; The politics of moral improvement ; The aristocracy and democracy of America ; The Jackson era: uneasy beginnings ; Radical democracies ; 1832: Jackson's crucial year ; Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy ; "The republic has degenerated into a democracy" ; The politics of hard times ; Whigs, Democrats, and democracy -- III: Slavery and the crisis of American democracy. Whig debacle, Democratic confusion ; Antislavery, annexation, and the advent of young Hickory ; The bitter fruits of Manifest Destiny ; War, slavery, and the American 1848 ; Political truce, uneasy consequences ; The truce collapses ; A nightmare broods over society ; The faith that right makes might ; The Iliad of all our woes. |
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