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1 online resource (xi, 421 pages) |
| Contents |
Democratic experiment: new directions in American political history / Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer -- Explaining the unexplainable: the cultural context of the sedition act / Joanne B. Freeman -- Affairs of office: the executive departments, the election of 1828, and the making of the democratic party / Richard R. John -- Legal transformation of citizenship in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak -- Bringing the constitution back in: amendment, innovation, and popular democracy during the Civil War era / Michael Vorenberg -- Democracy in the age of capital: contesting suffrage rights in gilded age New York / Sven Beckert -- Domesticity versus manhood rights: republicans, democrats, and "family values" politics, 1856-1896 / Rebecca Edwards -- Case for courts: law and political development in progressive era / Michael Willrich -- "Mirrors of desires": interest groups, elections, and the targeted style in twentieth-century America / Brian Balogh -- Pocketbook politics: democracy and the market in twentieth-century America / Meg Jacobs -- Uneasy relationship: democracy, taxation, and state building since the New Deal / Julian E. Zelizer -- All politics is local: the persistence of localism in twentieth-century America / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Suburban strategies: the volatile center in postwar American politics / Matthew D. Lassiter -- From Hartz to Tocqueville: shifting the focus from liberalism to democracy in America / James T. Kloppenberg -- Possibilities of analytical political history / Ira Katznelson |
| Summary |
In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day, The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life. Revealing the fierce struggles that have taken place over the role of the federal government and the character of representative democracy, the authors trace the contested and dynamic evolution of the national polity. The contributors, who represent the leading new voices in the revitalized fi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Political culture -- United States -- History
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Democracy -- United States -- History
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Federal government -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Democracy
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Federal government
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Politics and government -- Historiography
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Politieke geschiedenis.
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Democratie.
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United States of America.
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Politics.
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Political history.
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Government.
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History.
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Democracy.
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Federalism.
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Political culture.
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United States -- Politics and government -- Historiography
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United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jacobs, Meg, 1969-
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Novak, William J., 1961-
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Zelizer, Julian E.
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| ISBN |
9781400825820 |
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1400825822 |
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