POLITICS OF LONG DIVISION
Subtitle: THE BIRTH OF THE SECOND PARTY SYSTEM IN
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780814208496
Subjects: Ohio - Local History; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; Political History; Political Process - Political Parties; United States - State & Local - General; 1787-1865; Ohio; Political Parties; Politics and government
Description: "This sequel to Donald J. Ratcliffe's Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic investigates the origins of the important series of political contests now known as the Second Party System. Whereas recent historians claim that the mass parties of the antebellum era emerged in the 1830s, Ratcliffe argues that already by 1828 the battle lines had been laid down in Ohio that would dominate local and national politics until the eve of the Civil War, and even persist into the twentieth century.".

"The choices that voters made at this critical time reflected, in part, the energetic organizational work of ambitious politicians and the persuasive scurrility of the media. But, more significantly, it revealed not only the economic hopes and political attachments but also the cultural attitudes, ethnic antagonisms, and social tensions that divided Ohioans in the much-neglected decade of the 1820s."--BOOK JACKET.