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The politics of individualism : parties and the American character in the Jacksonian era
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The politics of individualism : parties and the American character in the Jacksonian era

Author: Lawrence Frederick Kohl
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lawrence Frederick Kohl
ISBN: 0195067819 9780195067811
OCLC Number: 27316397
Description: xii, 266 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Politics, society, and the individual in the Jacksonian era --
The emergence of individualism --
The politics of individualism --
The Jacksonian world --
Victims and victimizers --
The fettered and the free --
Outsiders and insiders --
The need for reassurance --
The search for understanding --
The roots of policy --
The Whig world --
The sense of confidence --
The problem of self-control --
Individualism and interdependence --
The need for reassurance --
The search for understanding --
The roots of policy --
Private and public : the individual and society --
Private and public --
The efficacy of public action --
The purity of public action --
Unity and union --
Public order : the individual and the rule of law --
Coercion vs. voluntarism --
Personal will and the rule of law --
Higher law and the rule of law --
The Constitution --
Economic inequality : the individual and the social hierarchy --
The creation of wealth --
The distribution of wealth --
The consequences of economic inequality --
The appeal of economic argument.
Responsibility: Lawrence Frederick Kohl.

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