Andrew Jackson Vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America - Brossura

Watson, Harry L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312112130 ISBN 13: 9780312112134

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins, 1998

Riassunto

This selection of letters, essays, and speeches demonstrates how the clashing perspectives of two individuals shaped and exemplified the major issues of national politics between the War of 1812 and the territorial crisis of 1850 — the preservation of the union, federal commitments to banking, tariffs, internal improvements, and the egalitarian tone of national political culture.

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L'autore:

Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He coedits Southern Cultures, a quarterly journal, and has published three scholarly books as well as numerous articles. His 1983 An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1750-1820 was co-recipient of the AHA's James Harvey Robinson Award. Watson's most recent book, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990), is considered the most cogent synthesis of Jacksonian politics in a generation of scholarship. Professor Watson has been a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, and he lectures widely in the United States and Abroad.

Contenuti:

Preface
PART I: OLD HICKORY, PRINCE HAL, AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC
Introduction
Social Change and the Market Revolution
Politics in the Early Republic
Jackson, Clay, and the Party System
The Making of a Tennessee Gentleman
The Gentleman becomes a Hero
The Warhawk from Kentucky
Postwar Problems: Banking Panic and Missouri Crisis
Round One : 1824
Round Two: 1828
The Hero becomes a President
Four More Years
Aftermath
PART II: 25 CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bedford/st Martins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312112130
• ISBN 13: 9780312112134
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 283