Status and Kinship in the Higher Civil Service : Standards of Selection in the Administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson / Sidney H. Aronson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aronson, Sidney H., author.

Series:

Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service.

Öffentliche Verwaltung.

United States--History--1783-1865.

United States--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Civil service.

United States--History--1783-1865.

United States--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

TABLES

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE APPOINTMENT IDEOLOGIES

CHAPTER II. THE SOCIAL - CLASS COMPOSITION OF PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS

CHAPTER III. AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1750 - 1830

CHAPTER IV. SOCIAL ORIGINS OF ELITE MEMBERS

CHAPTER V. SOCIAL - CLASS POSITIONS OF ELITE MEMBERS

CHAPTER VI. THE EDUCATION OF ELITE MEMBERS

CHAPTER VII. THE ROLE OF KINSHIP IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE ELITES

CHAPTER VIII. THE ORIGINS OF A TRADITION

APPENDIXES. NOTES. INDEX

APPENDIX A. SCHEDULE OF INFORMATION

APPENDIX Β. LIST OF ELITE OFFICES

APPENDIX C. ELITE APPOINTMENTS

APPENDIX D. EDUCATION OF ELITE MEMBERS

APPENDIX E. KINSHIP RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ELITES

APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL NOTE

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28013-X

OCLC:

1013954085