The Political Culture of the American Whigs
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226354798 (0226354792)
ASIN: 226354792
Publish date: February 15th 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 414
Edition language: English
This is an essential book on the 19th-century American Whig party. It explains what the Whig party was; what it stood for; what it did in politics; who its opponents were, how and why it officially died out (but unofficially survived in its similar successor, the Republican Party) and who its promin...
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