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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel H Silbey |
| ISBN: | 0804718784 9780804718783 0804723389 9780804723381 |
| OCLC Number: | 22889505 |
| Description: | xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: "The Lost Atlantis" -- The Contours of the American Political Nation: The Road to 1838 -- "The Country Demands the Existence of Parties" -- "Organize! Organize! Organize!" -- The Connecting Tissue: Ideas, Principles, and Policies in American Politics -- "There Is No Middle Ground": The Idioms of Political Warfare, 1838-1860 -- "The Moral Power of Any Party": The Boundaries of Politics in a Partisan Political Nation -- The Shrine of Party -- "To the Polls": The Structure of Popular Voting Behavior, 1838-1892 -- "To the Polls": The Voter Decides -- The Party State: Partisan Government in a Partisan Political Nation -- "Talk Not of Regularity and Party Associations": Challengers in the American Political Nation, 1838-1893 -- "When the Honor of the Country and the Vitality of Their Government Are at Stake": The System Ages, 1865-1893 -- Epilogue: After the Fall -- Contemporary Newspapers and Journals. |
| Series Title: | Stanford studies in the new political history. |
| Responsibility: | Joel H. Silbey. |
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