Practicing democracy
Subtitle: popular politics in the united states from the constitution to the civil war
By: Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith, editors
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813937700
Subjects: Politics and government; Political parties; Political participation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith; title: "Parties are unavoidable" : path dependence and the origins of party politics in the United States / Douglas Bradburn; title: Rethinking the origins of partisan democracy in the United States, 1795-1840 / Reeve Huston; title: Party, nation, and cultural rupture : the crisis of the American Civil War / John L. Brooke; title: Jeffersonian parties, politics, and participation : the tortuous trajectory of American democracy / Andrew W. Robertson; title: An "era of no feelings"? : rethinking the relationship between political parties and popular participation in the early United States / Daniel Peart; title: Was there a second party system? : Illinois as a case study in antebellum politics / Graham A. Peck; title: Legitimacy, localism, and the first party system / Kenneth Owen; title: "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" : immigrants and popular politics in precivil war New York / Tyler Anbinder; title: Small men, best men, and the big city : reconstructing political culture in antebellum Philadelphia / Andrew Heath; title: Approaches to democratization : engagement versus capability / Johann N. Neem; title: Afterword / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith.