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Title:

Practicing democracy : popular politics in the United States from the constitution to the Civil War / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith, editors.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

296 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Political parties--United States--History--18th century.
Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
Political participation--United States--History--18th century.
United States--Politics and government--1789-1815.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
History.
1700 - 1899
Political participation.
Political parties.
Politics and government.
United States.

Other Authors:

Peart, Daniel, 1985- editor.
Smith, Adam I. P., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0813937701
9780813937700

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904800777

LCCN:

2014047343

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)