Adams A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-29083-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 612 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to American History

A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson offers a wealth ofnew insights on the era of Andrew Jackson. This collection ofessays by leading scholars and historians considers various aspectsof the life, times, and legacy of the seventh president of theUnited States.

* Provides an overview of Andrew Jackson's life and legacy,grounded in the latest scholarship and including original researchspread across a number of thematic areas

* Features 30 essays contributed by leading scholars andhistorians

* Synthesizes the most up-to-date scholarship on the political,economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Age of AndrewJackson

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Sean Patrick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: The President and His Era 1
Sean Patrick Adams
Part I Young Andrew Jackson's America 13
1. Life on the Early American Borderlands 15
Kevin T. Barksdale
2. The Foundations of Jackson's Removal Policy:U.S.-Indian Relations, 1775-1815 37
Tim Alan Garrison
3. The Old Southwest Becomes the Cotton Frontier 56
Daniel S. Dupre
4. Andrew Jackson and the Legacy of the Battle of New Orleans79
Matthew Warshauer
Part II The Era of the "Common Man" 93
5. The Market Revolution 95
Brian Phillips Murphy
6. Religious Revivalism and Public Life 111
Eric R. Schlereth
7. Internal Improvements 130
Stephen Campbell
8. Slavery and the Making of the Old South 154
Robert H. Gudmestad
9. Creating a Democracy of Common Men 170
Michael Zakim
10. The Ambiguities of Class in Antebellum America 194
Brian P. Luskey
11. Antislavery to Abolitionism 213
L. Diane Barnes
Part III Politics in the Age of Jackson 229
12. The Early Jackson Party: A Force for Democratization?231
Thomas Coens
13. The Myth and Reality of Andrew Jackson's Rise in theElection of 1824 260
Sharon Ann Murphy
14. The Elections of 1824 and 1828 and the Birth of ModernPolitics 280
John M. Sacher
15. "She's as Chaste as a Virgin!": Gender,Political Platforms, and the Second American Party System 298
Nancy Morgan
16. The Rise of the Whig Party 328
Frank Towers
17. The Fog of War: Jackson, Biddle and the Destruction of theBank of the United States 348
Stephen Mihm
18. The Nullifi cation Crisis 376
Kevin M. Gannon
19. Native American Removal 391
Andrew K. Frank
20. Radicalism in the Age of Jackson 412
Joshua R. Greenberg
Part IV Jacksonian Legacies 433
21. Financial Panics in the Early American Republic 435
Jose R. Torre
22. Immigration in the Jacksonian Era 454
David T. Gleeson
23. Andrew Jackson's West 474
Eric J. Morser
24. The Rise of the Consumer in the Age of Jackson 489
Wendy A. Woloson
25. The Rise of the "Common Woman" inJackson's America 509
Nancy A. Hewitt
26. Fanfare for the Common Man? Political Participation inJacksonian America 532
Robert J. Cook
27. Manifest Destiny and the American Southwest 549
Sam W. Haynes
Further Reading 569
Index 586

Über Autor(innen)

Sean Patrick Adams is Associate Professor of History at theUniversity of Florida. He is the author of Old Dominion,Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in AntebellumAmerica (2004) and editor of The Early American Republic: ADocumentary Reader (2008), as well as several articles on19th-century American history.