LSU Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x1. LSU Press ISBN 0807126098 9780807126097 [US]

LSU Press, Date: 1992-06-01. paperback. Used:Good. 1992. LSU Press ISBN 0807126098 9780807126097 [US]

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln. ISBN 0807126098 9780807126097 [GB]

ISBN10: 0807126098, ISBN13: 9780807126097, [publisher: LSU Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For more than twenty years Michael F. Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the political history of the United States. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln is a collection of some of his more important shorter studies on the politics of nineteenth-century America.The collection focuses on the mass political parties that emerged in the 1820s and their role in broader political developments from that decade to 1865. Holt includes essays on the Democratic, Antimasonic, Whig, and Know Nothing parties, as well as one on Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the congressional wing of the Republican party during the Civil War. Almost all essays touch on the broad question of the role of partisan politics in explaining the outbreak of the war. Individual essays address the following questions as well: What explains the birth and death of powerful third parties What was the relationship among economic conditions, party performance in office (especially legislative performance), and the mobilization of an unprecedented number of voters between 1836 and 1840 Why did the Whigs find it necessary to nominate military hero Zachary Taylor as their presidential candidate in 1848 What explains the death of the Whig party What role did ethnoreligious issues and ...
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