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The age of Jackson.
LIBRA E381 .S38
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
- Jackson, Andrew.
- Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845.
- United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1829-1837--Sources.
- elnök--Egyesült Államok--18-19. sz.
- belpolitika--Egyesült Államok--19. sz.
- Local Subjects:
- Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845.
- United States--Politics and government--1829-1837--Sources.
- elnök--Egyesült Államok--18-19. sz.
- belpolitika--Egyesült Államok--19. sz.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 577 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1953 [©1945]
- Summary:
- Discusses the end of the Jeffersonian agricultural era to the rise of industrialism and its radical effects on the national economy during the Jacksonian period.
- Contents:
- Prologue: 1829
- End of Arcadia
- Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience
- Background for revolution
- The first year
- The men around the president
- Beginnings of the Bank War
- Veto
- Hard money
- Credo of the workingman
- Stirrings in the Bay State
- George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts
- Radicalism in New York
- Rise of the Locofocos
- The pattern of Locofocoism
- The third term
- Panic
- Divorce of Bank and state
- The Southern dilemmas
- Radicalism at high water
- The Whig counterreformation
- 1840
- Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement
- Jacksonian democracy and the law
- Jacksonian democracy and industrialism
- Jacksonian democracy and religion
- Jacksonian democracy and utopia
- Jacksonian democracy and literature
- Tyler too
- Minorities and majorities
- Cloud on the horizon
- Gathering of the storm
- Free Soil
- The storm approaches
- "Our federal union ..."
- Traditions of democracy
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, History, 1946.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007. Age of Jackson.
- ISBN:
- 0316773441
- 9780316773447
- 0316773433
- 9780316773430
- OCLC:
- 1662683
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