The Many-faceted Jacksonian era
Subtitle: new interpretations
By: edited by Edward Pessen.
Contributors: Pessen, Edward, 1920-
Series: Contributions in American history ;; 0084-9219
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [323]-326.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Society: Pessen, E. The egalitarian myth and the American social reality. Welter, B. The cult of true womanhood, 1820-1860. Knights, P. R. Out-migration from Boston, 1830-1860. Curry, L. P. Urbanization and urbanism in the Old South.; title: The economy: Temin, P. The Jacksonian economy. Montgomery, D. The shuttle and the cross, weavers and artisans in the Kensington riots of 1844. Gutman, H. G. The occupational structure and the alleged social mobility of slaves. Fogel, R. W. How important were railroads to the antebellum economy?; title: Politics: Brown, R. H. The Missouri crisis, slavery, and the politics of Jacksonianism. Wilson, M. L. What Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats meant by freedom. Ershkowitz, H. and Shade, W. G. Consensus or conflict? Political behavior in the state legislatures during the Jacksonian Era. Pessen, E. Who governed the nation's cities in the "Era of the Common Man"?; title: Reform: Kraditor, A. S. Garrison's political tactics reevaluated. Katz, M. B. Educational promoters and the high school. Rothman, D. J. Antebellum concepts of prison reform. Banner, L. W. Religious benevolence as social control.