Affairs of Party : : The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid–Nineteenth Century. / / Jean H. Baker.

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• VerfasserIn: Baker, Jean H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (367 p.)

Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became De...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface to the 1998 Edition
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART 1: LEARNING TO BE DEMOCRATS
• 1. Partisan Roots
• 2. Learning to Be Americans: Schooling and Political Culture
• 3. A Sense of Party: George Bancroft, Martin Van Buren, and Samuel Cox
• PART II: THINKING AS DEMOCRATS
• 4. The Revival of Republicanism
• 5. Conservative Naturalism: The Racial Views of Stephen Douglas and the Delaware Bayards
• 6. The Negro Issue: Popular Culture, Racial Attitudes, and Democratic Policy
• PART III: BEHAVING AS DEMOCRATS
• 7. The Meaning of Elections
• 8. Southern Connections and Party Nationalism
• Conclusion: The Democracy as Imitator and Shaper
• Bibliographic Notes
• Index