Author: John Middleton CLAYTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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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
Book Description
Speech at the Delaware Whig Mass Convention, Held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton ClaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protectionism
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Speech ... at the Delaware Mass Whig Convention, held at Wilmington, June 15, 1844
Author: John Middleton CLAYTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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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 Walter HaynesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"This is a clear, incisively written narrative history of American anxiety about British domination---political, military, economic, cultural---from the War of 1812 to the mid-nineteenth century. Unfinished Revolution's predominant thoughtfulness and readable verve across a very extensive canvass should commend it to a wide range of readers as a valuable reconnaissance of what was arguably the most consequential national anxiety faced by the `young republic' during its middle period."---Lawrence Buell, Harvard University --
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy
Author: Samuel Flagg BemisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy
Author: Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891-, ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816−1861
Author: Daniel PeartPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421426129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War. Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all the more timely to remind ourselves that debates over free trade and protection were just as controversial in the early United States as they have once again become, and that lobbying, then as now, played an important part in Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, for the people." In Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 18161861, Daniel Peart reveals how active lobbyists were in Washington throughout the antebellum era. He describes how they involved themselves at every stage of the making of tariff policy, from setting the congressional agenda, through the writing of legislation in committee, to the final vote. Considering policymaking as a process, Peart focuses on the importance of rules and timing, the critical roles played by individual lawmakers and lobbyists, and the high degree of uncertainty that characterized this formative period in American political development. The debate about tariff policy, Peart explains, is an unbroken thread that runs throughout the pre–Civil War era, connecting disparate individuals and events and shaping the development of the United States in myriad ways. Duties levied on imports provided the federal government with the major part of its revenue from the ratification of the Constitution to the close of the nineteenth century. More controversially, they also offered protection to domestic producers against foreign competition, at the expense of increased costs for consumers and the risk of retaliation from international trade partners. Ultimately, this book uses the tariff issue to illustrate the critical role that lobbying played within the antebellum policymaking process.
The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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