Title: Ideology and power in the age of Jackson
Description: "AD1." Bibliography: p. [363]-365. The progress of the United States in population and wealth / George Tucker -- Agriculture, mechanics, and manufactures : on these depends the prosperity of our nation -- What causes almost all Americans to follow industrial callings / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Speculations in land, railroads, and banks / Michel Chevalier -- "There are certain causes which have acted with peculiar energy in our generation..." / Daniel Webster -- Machinery, for machine making -- The influence of the trading spirit on the social and moral life in America / The American Whig Review -- The absorbing desire for gain : two scenes / James Fenimore Cooper -- Napoleon, or the man of the world / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The course of civilization : allegory and reality -- Of honor in the United States and in democratic communities / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The middle classes / Michel Chevalier -- The higher circles and the lower circles --^

The artificial inequality of wealth / William M. Gouge --Resolutions on the social, civil, and intellectual condition of the laboring classes / The National Trades' Union -- On social station / James Fenimore Cooper -- Envy and debt : two stories / McGuffey's Readers -- The honest school boy rewarded -- The necessity of education in a republican government / Horace Mann -- Fighting and throwing stones -- "There seemed to be a general union of ministerial influence against us." / Charles Grandison Finney -- "There is and always has been... a conflict between labor and capital." / John C. Calhoun -- New England reformers / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Symptoms of revolution / Michel Chevalier -- Social ferment -- A veto, a proclamation, and a protest / Andrew Jackson -- Monopolies and corporations / William Leggett -- The decision of the Supreme Court in the Charles River Bridge case / Roger B. Taney -- Divorce of bank and state / Thomas Hart Benton --^

"He has collected and embodied the wishes of the people..." / William M. Holland --"Great men always wear the imprints of the times..." / Francis J. Grund -- David Crockett enters politics / Colonel David Crockett -- "We have taught them how to conquer us!" / The Democratic Review -- Of the relation between public associations and the newspapers / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Jacksonian political caricature -- The office of the people in art, government, and religion / George Bancroft -- The democratic principle / The Democratic Review -- The laboring classes / Orestes A. Brownson -- "The whigs of 1840 stand... where the whigs of the revolution were..." / Henry Clay -- "This is a country of self-made men..." / Calvin Colton -- Contrasting styles and values.
Subjects: Politics and government, Civilization, Democracy
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1865, 1829-1837