The nature of Jacksonian America
By: edited by Douglas T. Miller.
Series: The Wiley problems in American history series
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.; United States -- History -- 1815-1861.
Table of contents: title: A time of change: Everything's changed, by D. T. Miller. Comparative importance, capabilities, and probable destiny of the United States; and the relative importance of the Mississippi Valley, by C. Colton. Railroads in America, by M. Chevalier. Fourth of July at Lowell, by E. Everett.; title: An age of anxieties: No longer to remain plain and simple republics of farmers, by J. Kent. The machine in the garden, by L. Marx. The celestial railroad, by N. Hawthorne. The Jacksonian persuasion, by M. Meyers. Inflence [sic] of the trading spirit upon the social and moral life of America, by the editors of the American review. The old arm chair, by E. Cooke and H. Russell. Causes of the restless spirit of the Americans in the midst of their prosperity, by A. Tocqueville. Symptoms of revolution, by M. Chevalier.; title: Politics and reform: Toward a party system, by R. Hofstadter. New perspectives on Jacksonian politics, by R. P. McCormick. Jacksonian democracy; title: concept or fiction? By L. Benson. General Jackson understands the people of the United States, by F. J. Grund. Andrew Jackson symbol for an age, by J. W. Ward. Public opinion, by W. Phillips. Education in the western states, by E. Everett. New England reformers, by R. W. Emerson.; title: Bibliography (p. 147-152)