Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Spirit of Young America
- 1 Orthodox Jacksonianism, 1828–1844
- 2 Trade and Improvements: The Economic Orientation of Young America Democrats
- 3 Rails, Canals, and a New Commercial Spirit
- 4 Young America Democrats and the Revolutions of 1848
- 5 A New International Consciousness
- 6 The Fires of Perfection Revisited
- 7 The Antislavery Democracy
- 8 New Democrats and the Coming of the Civil War
- Conclusion: Lincoln on Young America
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Spirit of Young America
- 1 Orthodox Jacksonianism, 1828–1844
- 2 Trade and Improvements: The Economic Orientation of Young America Democrats
- 3 Rails, Canals, and a New Commercial Spirit
- 4 Young America Democrats and the Revolutions of 1848
- 5 A New International Consciousness
- 6 The Fires of Perfection Revisited
- 7 The Antislavery Democracy
- 8 New Democrats and the Coming of the Civil War
- Conclusion: Lincoln on Young America
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007