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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1964
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of 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