Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and PoliticsA perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society." |
Contents
Introduction The Continuing Fascination of the Jacksonian Era | 1 |
The Jacksonian Character A Contemporary Portrait of American Personality Traits and Values | 4 |
The Changing Population Ethnic Racial and Sexual Minorities | 33 |
The Urban Revolution and Other Social Developments | 53 |
The Inegalitarian Society | 77 |
Jacksonian Capitalism Agriculture Labor and Industry | 101 |
Jacksonian Capitalism Transportation Commerce and Banking | 116 |
The New Political System of the Jacksonian Era | 143 |
The Idealogical Parties of the Jacksonian Era The Minor Parties Revisited | 255 |
Reflections on the Political Issues of the Jacksonian Era | 282 |
Conclusion | 318 |
Bibliographical Essay | 323 |
Society and Social Developments | 324 |
The Economy and Economic Developments | 335 |
Parties and Politics | 343 |
A Retrospective Glance at the Modern Jacksonian Controversy | 345 |
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