Liberty and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America,9780809065479

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Liberty and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America

by Watson

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780809065479

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0809065479

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

5/2/2006

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Hill and Wang

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Summary

More than two decades after its first publication, Liberty and Power remains one of the most definitive sources on Jacksonian America to appear in the last century. In this enduring and impressive work, Harry L. Watson argues that the policy disputes of the nineteenth century significantly influenced the future of the Republic and the nature of its society and economy. With raucous political debates that often seemed to pit those who defended the ideals of liberty against those who asserted power, the clash between the leaders of the United States led to intensified public involvement in politics and enduring political parties. Updated to address twenty-five years of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliographic essay. Liberty and Power remains the best introduction we have to the age of Jackson. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Harry L. Watson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict and An Independent People.

Preface to the Revised Edition	xi
Introduction	3	(14)
1. The Great Body of the People	17	(25)
2. Republican Theory and Practice	42	(31)
3. A Corrupt Bargain	73	(23)
4. "Our Federal Union. It Must Be Preserved"	96	(36)
5. Killing the Monster	132	(40)
6. National Parties and Local Politics	172	(26)
7. Van Buren, Harrison, and Tyler	198	(33)
8. The Second American Party System	231	(24)
Afterword: Questions and Controversies	255	(26)
Bibliographical Essay	281	(24)
Index	305