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The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
By (Author) Lee Benson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
320.473049
Hardback
368
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
680g
Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history. But in this penetrating analysis of one state-its voting cycles, party makeup, and social, ethnic, and religious patterns-Lee Benson shows that the concept bears little or no relation to New York history during the Jacksonian period. New York voters between 1816 and 1844 did