Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln

Name: Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln
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ISBN: 9780807126097

ISBN-10: 0807126098

ISBN-13: 9780807126097

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Authors: Michael F. Holt, Erwin C. Hargrove, James Sterling Young

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For more than twenty years Michael F. Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the political history of the United States. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln is a collection of some of his more important shorter studies on the politics of nineteenth-century America.The collection focuses on the mass political parties that emerged in the 1820s and their role in broader political developments from that decade to 1865. Holt includes essays on the Democratic, Antimasonic, Whig, and Know Nothing parties, as well as one on Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the congressional wing of the Republican party during the…

Book details

Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 6/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 365
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Democratic Party, 1828-1860


The Antimasonic and Know Nothing Parties


The Election of 1840, Voter Mobilization, and the Emergence of the Second American Party System: A Reappraisal of Jacksonian Voting Behavior


Winding Roads to Recovery: The Whig Party from 1844 to 1848


The Mysterious Disappearance of the American Whig Party


The Politics of Impatience: The Origins of Know Nothingism


The New Political History and the Civil War Era


Two Roads to Sumter


The Problem of Civil War Causation


Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Union


Index