Author: John Middleton CLAYTONPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Speech ... at the Delaware Mass Whig Convention, held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton CLAYTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Speech at the Delaware Whig Mass Convention, Held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton ClaytonPublisher:
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Category : Protectionism
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Speech ... at the Delaware Mass Whig Convention, held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton CLAYTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Speech of Hon. John M. Clayton, at the Delaware Whig Mass Convention,
Author: John Middleton ClaytonPublisher:
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Speech of the hon. John M. Clayton, at the Delaware Mass Whig Convention, held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton ClaytonPublisher:
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Category : Protectionism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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SPEECH OF HON. JOHN M. CLAYTON, AT THE DELAWARE WHIG MASS CONVENTION
Author: JOHN MIDDLETON. CLAYTONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781333626372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Speech of Mr. Clayton, of Delaware
Author: John Middleton ClaytonPublisher:
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Category : Protectionism
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Roots of American Individualism
Author: Alex ZakarasPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226318
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. Alex Zakaras plunges readers into the spirited and rancorous political debates of Andrew Jackson’s America, drawing on the stump speeches, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and sermons that captivated mass audiences and shaped partisan identities. He shows how these debates popularized three powerful myths that celebrated the young nation as an exceptional land of liberty: the myth of the independent proprietor, the myth of the rights-bearer, and the myth of the self-made man. The Roots of American Individualism reveals how generations of politicians, pundits, and provocateurs have invoked these myths for competing political purposes. Time and again, the myths were used to determine who would enjoy equal rights and freedoms and who would not. They also conjured up heavily idealized, apolitical visions of social harmony and boundless opportunity, typically centered on the free market, that have distorted American political thought to this day.
Unfinished Revolution
Author: Sam W. HaynesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
After the War of 1812 the United States remained a cultural and economic satellite of the world’s most powerful empire. Though political independence had been won, John Bull intruded upon virtually every aspect of public life, from politics to economic development to literature to the performing arts. Many Americans resented their subordinate role in the transatlantic equation and, as earnest republicans, felt compelled to sever the ties that still connected the two nations. At the same time, the pull of Britain’s centripetal orbit remained strong, so that Americans also harbored an unseemly, almost desperate need for validation from the nation that had given rise to their republic. The tensions inherent in this paradoxical relationship are the focus of Unfinished Revolution. Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. Moreover, an examination of the transatlantic relationship from an American perspective suggests that the United States may have had more in common with traditional developing nations than we have generally recognized. Writing from the vantage point of America’s unrivaled global dominance, historians have tended to see in the young nation the superpower it would become. Haynes here argues that, for all its vaunted claims of distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of "manifest destiny," the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.
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