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Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Peart, Daniel; Smith, I. P. Num Pages: 288 pages, tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 825.
In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between political parties and popular participation, and the place that parties occupied within the wider world of United States politics.
In recent years, historians of the early republic have demolished old assumptions about low rates of political participation and shallow popular partisanship in the ... Read more
In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between political parties and popular participation, and the place that parties occupied within the wider world of United States politics.
In recent years, historians of the early republic have demolished old assumptions about low rates of political participation and shallow popular partisanship in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937700
SKU
V9780813937700
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Ref
99-12
About
Daniel Peart, Lecturer in American History at Queen Mary University of London, UK is author of Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (Virginia). Adam I. P. Smith, Senior Lecturer at University College London, UK is author of No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North
Reviews for Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
“Practicing Democracy breaks new ground in the analysis of early republican and antebellum political history and political culture. Building on previous 'new' political histories, it critiques and transcends them."" —Ronald P. Formisano, University of Kentucky