Essays on Jacksonian America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatell, Frank Otto, compiler.

Series:

HRW essays in American history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.

Jackson, Andrew.

United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.

United States.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 267 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]

Contents:

James Monroe and the era of good feelings, by H. Ammon.

Southern support of the Tariff of 1816, by N. W. Preyer.

The Missouri crisis, slavery, and the politics of Jacksonianism, by R. H. Brown.

The frontier West as image of American society, by R. Welter.

The national planning of internal improvements, by C. Goodrich.

New York port and its disappointed rivals, by R. G. Albion.

Jacksonian democracy and the rise of the nominating convention, by J. S. Chase.

New perspectives on Jacksonian politics, by R. P. McCormick.

The presidential election of 1832 in New Hampshire, by D. B. Cole.

Andrew Jackson and the judiciary, by R. P. Longaker.

"Liberty and Union": an analysis of three concepts involved in the nullification controversy, by M. L. Wilson.

Jackson, Biddle, and the Bank of the United States, by B. Hammond.

Sober second thoughts on Van Buren, the Albany regency, and the Wall Street conspiracy, by F. O. Gatell.

The Working Men's Party revisited, by E. Pessen.

Political aspects of the Van Buren era, by W. G. Carleton.

The Jacksonian persuasion, by M. Meyers.

Spoilsmen and interests in the thought and career of John C. Calhoun, by W. W. Freehling.

Who were the southern Whigs? By C. Sellers.

Introduction to Charles G. Finney, lectures on revivals of religion, by W. C. McLoughlin.

Some themes of counter-subversion, by D. B. Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0030776058

OCLC:

66108