The Democratic Experiment : : New Directions in American Political History /

The Democratic Experiment : : New Directions in American Political History / / Julian Zelizer, William J. Novak, Meg Jacobs.

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. Revea...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Jacobs, Meg,
Novak, William J.,
Zelizer, Julian,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History / Jacobs, Meg / Zelizer, Julian E.
  • Chapter Two. Explaining the Unexplainable: The Cultural Context of the Sedition Act / Freeman, Joanne B.
  • Chapter Three. Affairs Of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party / John, Richard R.
  • Chapter Four. The Legal Transformation of Citizenship In Nineteenth-Century America / Novak, William J.
  • Chapter Five. Bringing the Constitution Back in: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy During the Civil War Era / Vorenberg, Michael
  • Chapter Six. Democracy in the Age of Capital: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York / Beckert, Sven
  • Chapter Seven. Domesticity Versus Manhood Rights / Edwards, Rebecca
  • Chapter Eight. The Case for Courts / Willrich, Michael
  • CHAPTER NIN.E "Mirrors of Desires": Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America / Balogh, Brian
  • CHAPTER TEN. Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America / Jacobs, Meg
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State Building since the New Deal / Zelizer, Julian E.
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America / Sugrue, Thomas J.
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar American Politics / Lassiter, Matthew D.
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. From Hartz to Tocqueville: Shifting the Focus from Liberalism to Democracy in America / Kloppenberg, James T.
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Possibilities of Analytical Political History Ira Katznelson / Katznelson, Ira
  • Index

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