Politics of Individualism Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era

Name: Politics of Individualism Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era
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ISBN: 9780195053746

ISBN-10: 0195053745

ISBN-13: 9780195053746

Edition: 1989

Authors: Lawrence Frederick Kohl

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In the fifty years following the Revolution, America's population nearly quadrupled, its boundaries expanded, industrialization took root in the Northeast, new modes of transportation flourished, state banks proliferated and offered easy credit to eager entrepreneurs, and Americans found themselves in the midst of an accelerating age of individualism, equality, and self-reliance. To the Jacksonian generation, it seemed as if their world had changed practically overnight. ThePolitics of Individualism looks at the political manifestations of these staggering social transformations. During the 1830s and 1840s, Americans were consumed by politics and party loyalties were fierce. Here, Kohl…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Preface	p. vii
Introduction Politics, Society, and the Individual in the Jacksonian Era	p. 3
Two World Views	p. 19
The Jacksonian World	p. 21
The Whig World	p. 63
The Dialogue of Parties	p. 101
Private and Public: The Individual and Society	p. 103
Economic Inequality: The Individual and the Social Hierarchy	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 228
Notes	p. 230
Index	p. 259
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