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The market revolution : Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
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ISBN: 1280595337 9786613625168 0199762422 9780199762422 0195038894 9780195038897 0195089200 9780195089202 0199878641 0197714552 9780199878642 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.--


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James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian
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ISBN: 9781400877881 1400877881 9780691626734 9780691045191 0691626731 0691045194 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson's administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is also a history of his generation's political experience. Professor Sellers has combined the elements with a sure hand, bringing out Polk's character-his ambition, his determination, his faith in the electorate-and the nature of his friends, his enemies, and the times in which he moved. One feature of the work is the light it throws on the relation between national politics and those in Tennessee.Originally published in 1957.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Andrew Jackson, nullification and the state-rights tradition
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Year: 1963 Publisher: Chicago Rand McNally

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James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian
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ISBN: 9781400877881 9780691626734 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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James K. Polk, Volume II : Continent
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ISBN: 9781400879793 9780691623771 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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A synopsis of American history
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Year: 1963 Publisher: Chicago Rand McNally

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The Southerner as American
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Year: 1960 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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