| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith -- "Parties are unavoidable" : path dependence and the origins of party politics in the United States / Douglas Bradburn -- Rethinking the origins of partisan democracy in the United States, 1795-1840 / Reeve Huston -- Party, nation, and cultural rupture : the crisis of the American Civil War / John L. Brooke -- Jeffersonian parties, politics, and participation : the tortuous trajectory of American democracy / Andrew W. Robertson -- An "era of no feelings"? : rethinking the relationship between political parties and popular participation in the early United States / Daniel Peart -- Was there a second party system? : Illinois as a case study in antebellum politics / Graham A. Peck -- Legitimacy, localism, and the first party system / Kenneth Owen -- "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" : immigrants and popular politics in precivil war New York / Tyler Anbinder -- Small men, best men, and the big city : reconstructing political culture in antebellum Philadelphia / Andrew Heath -- Approaches to democratization : engagement versus capability / Johann N. Neem -- Afterword / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith |
| Summary |
"In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between political parties and popular participation, and the place that parties occupied within the wider world of United States politics. In recent years, historians of the early republic have demolished old assumptions about low rates of political participation and shallow popular partisanship in the age of Jefferson-raising the question of how, if at all, Jacksonian politics departed from earlier norms. This book reaffirms the significance of a transition in political practices during the 1820s and 1830s but casts the transformation in a new light. Whereas the traditional narrative is one of a party-driven democratic awakening, the contributors to this volume challenge the correlation of party with democracy. They both critique constricting definitions of legitimate democratic practices in the decades following the ratification of the Constitution and emphasize the proliferation of competing public voices in the buildup to the Civil War. Taken together, these essays offer a new way of thinking about American politics across the traditional dividing line of 1828 and suggest a novel approach to the long-standing question of what it meant to be part of 'We the People.'"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (JSTOR, viewed November 18, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political parties -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Political parties -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Political participation -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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Political participation
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Political parties
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140419
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140427
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peart, Daniel, 1985- editor.
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Smith, Adam I. P., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813937717 |
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9780813937700 |
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081393771X |
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0813937701 |
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