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The Many-faceted Jacksonian era : new interpretations

Author: Edward Pessen
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.
Series: Contributions in American history, no. 67
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Many-faceted Jacksonian era.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977
(OCoLC)646890812
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward Pessen
ISBN: 0837197201 : 9780837197203
OCLC Number: 3186526
Description: 331 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Society --
The egalitarian myth and the American social reality / E. Pessen --
The cult of true womanhood, 1820-1860 / B. Welter --
Out-migration from Boston, 1830-1860 / P.R. Knights --
Urbanization and urbanism in the Old South / L.P. Curry --
The economy --
The Jacksonian economy / P. Temin --
The shuttle and the cross, weavers and artisans in the Kensington riots of 1844 / D. Montgomery --
The occupational structure and the alleged social mobility of slaves / H.G. Gutman --
How important were railroads to the antebellum economy? / R.W. Fogel --
Politics --
The Missouri crisis, slavery, and the politics of Jacksonianism / R.H. Brown --
What Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats meant by freedom / M.L. Wilson --
Consensus or conflict? Political behavior in the state legislatures during the Jacksonian Era / H. Ershkowitz and W.G. Shade --
Who governed the nation's cities in the "Era of the Common Man"? / E. Pessen --
Reform --
Garrison's political tactics reevaluated / A.S. Kraditor --
Educational promoters and the high school / M.B. Katz --
Antebellum concepts of prison reform / D.J. Rothman --
Religious benevolence as social control / L.W. Banner.
Series Title: Contributions in American history, no. 67
Responsibility: edited by Edward Pessen.

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