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Embracing Dissent : Political Violence and Party Development in the United States / Jeffrey S. Selinger.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selinger, Jeffrey S., Author.
- Series:
- American governance.
- American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--United States--History.
- Political parties.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "How did party competition become a regular and "normal" feature of the American political landscape? Why did American political leaders, who viewed such rivalry as a harbinger of the new republic's destruction, come to terms with party opposition? Enbracing Dissent tells this story of political transformation, making the case that the status of party gained ground as the notion that party competition might instigate class violence, secession, or civil war, receded. From the American founding and the appearance of the Jacksonian Democratic party to Lincoln's management of party politics during the Civil War, Jeffrey S. Selinger presents a careful reconsideration of American political development"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Legitimate party opposition and the early American state
- Economic collapse and the constitutional construction of party politics
- The French revolutionary wars and the ordeal of America's first party system
- The second party system and the politics of displacing conflict
- Union, emancipation, and party building as military strategy
- Redrawing the limits of legitimate party opposition: party politics and its discontents at the turn of the twentieth century
- Epilogue: party legitimacy, then and now.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780812292589
- 0812292588
- OCLC:
- 946106064
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