The Political Culture of the American Whigs

Forsideomslag
University of Chicago Press, 1979 - 404 sider
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.

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Introduction
1
One The Whigs and Their Age
11
Two The Language and Values of the Whigs
23
Three John Quincy Adams Nonpartisan Politician
43
Four The Whig Interpretation of History
69
Five The Entrepreneurial Ethos
96
Six Henry Clay Ideologue of the Center
123
Seven The Evangelicals
150
Eight The Modernizers
181
Nine Whig Conservatism
210
Ten Alexander Stephens and the Failure of Southern Whiggery
238
Eleven Abraham Lincoln and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery
263
Conclusion
299
Notes
307
Index
383
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Daniel Walker Howe is professor of history and chairman of the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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