A companion to the era of Andrew Jackson /
"A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson" offers a wealth of new insights on the era of Andrew Jackson. This collection of essays by leading scholars and historians considers various aspects of the life, times, and legacy of the seventh president of the United States. Provides an overview...
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to American history
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The president and his era / Sean Patrick Adams
- Part I. Young Andrew Jackson's America.
- Life on the early American borderlands / Kevin T. Barksdale
- The foundations of Jackson's removal policy : U.S.-Indian relations, 1775-1815 / Tim Alan Garrison
- The Old Southwest becomes the cotton frontier / Daniel S. Dupre
- Andrew Jackson and the legacy of the Battle of New Orleans / Matthew Warshauer
- Part II. The era of the "common man".
- The Market Revolution / Brian Phillips Murphy
- Religious revivalism and public life / Eric R. Schlereth
- Internal improvements / Stephen Campbell
- Slavery and the making of the Old South / Robert H. Gudmestad
- Creating a democracy of common men / Michael Zakim
- The ambiguities of class in antebellum America / Brian P. Luskey
- Antislavery to abolitionism / L. Diane Barnes
- Part III. Politics in the age of Jackson.
- The early Jackson party : a force for democratization? / Thomas Coens
- The myth and reality of Andrew Jackson's rise in the election of 1824 / Sharon Ann Murphy
- The elections of 1824 and 1828 and the birth of modern politics / John M. Sacher
- "She's as chaste as a virgin!" : gender, political platforms, and the second American party system / Nancy Morgan
- The rise of the Whig Party / Frank Towers
- The fog of war : Jackson, Biddle and the destruction of the Bank of the United States / Stephen Mihm
- The nullification crisis / Kevin M. Gannon
- Native American removal / Andrew K. Frank
- Radicalism in the age of Jackson / Joshua R. Greenberg
- Part IV. Jacksonian legacies.
- Financial panics in the early American republic / Jose R. Torre
- Immigration in the Jacksonian era / David T. Gleeson
- Andrew Jackson's West / Eric J. Morser
- The rise of the consumer in the age of Jackson / Wendy A. Woloson
- The rise of the "common woman" in Jackson's America / Nancy A. Hewitt
- Fanfare for the common man? Political participation in Jacksonian America / Robert J. Cook
- Manifest destiny and the American Southwest / Sam W. Haynes.