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Practicing democracy : popular politics in the United States from the constitution to the Civil War / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--United States--History--18th century.
- Political parties.
- Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
- Political participation.
- History.
- United States.
- Political participation--United States--History--18th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1789-1815.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0813937701
- 9780813937700
- OCLC:
- 904800777
- Publisher Number:
- 99963802195
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