Jacobs / Novak / Zelizer The Democratic Experiment

New Directions in American Political History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2582-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Meg

Novak, William J.

Zelizer, Julian E.

Zelizer, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTRIBUTORS ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

CHAPTER ONE

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History by Meg Jacobs and Julian E. Zelizer 1

CHAPTER TWO

Explaining the Unexplainable: The Cultural Context of the Sedition Act by Joanne B. Freeman 20

CHAPTER THREE

Affairs of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party by Richard R. John 50

CHAPTER FOUR

The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America by William J. Novak 85

CHAPTER FIVE

Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy during the Civil War Era by Michael Vorenberg 120

CHAPTER SIX

Democracy in the Age of Capital: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York by Sven Beckert 146

CHAPTER SEVEN

Domesticity versus Manhood Rights: Republicans, Democrats, and "Family Values "Politics,1856-1896 by Rebecca Edwards 175

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Case for Courts: Law and Political Development in the Progressive Era by Michael Willrich 198

CHAPTER NINE

"Mirrors of Desires":Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America by Brian Balogh 222

CHAPTER TEN

Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America by Meg Jacobs 250

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State Building since the New Deal by Julian E. Zelizer 276

CHAPTER TWELVE

All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America by Thomas J. Sugrue 301

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar American Politics by Matthew D. Lassiter 327

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

From Hartz to Tocqueville: Shifting the Focus from Liberalism to Democracy in America by James T Kloppenberg 350

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Possibilities of Analytical Political History Ira Katznelson 381

INDEX 401

Über Autor(innen)

Meg Jacobs is Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Novak is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is the author of The People's Welfare. Julian E. Zelizer is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Public Administration, and Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Taxing America.