Jacksonian Democracy/Bibliography

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• Altschuler, Glenn C. and Stuart M. Blumin, "Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy," Journal of American History, 84 (Dec. 1997), 878-79. in JSTOR
• Baker, Jean. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983).
• Benson, Lee. The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case (1961). Rejects the economic determinism of Charles Beard and Frederick Jackson Turner; incorporates such Marxist elements as a belief in the science of history and the possibility of overarching explanatory theories for human behavior.
• Brown, David. "Jeffersonian Ideology and the Second Party System." Historian 1999 62(1): 17-30. Issn: 0018-2370 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Bugg Jr. James L. ed. Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality? (1952), short essays online edition
• Cave, Alfred A. Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians (1964)
• Cole, Donald B. Martin Van Buren And The American Political System (1984)
• Cole, Donald B. A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy (2004) excerpt and text search
• Cole, Donald B. Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire (1970), uses quantitative electoral data
• Doutrich, Paul E. Shapers of the Great Debate on Jacksonian Democracy: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood, 2004. 360 pp.
• Formisano, Ronald P. "Toward a Reorientation of Jacksonian Politics: A Review of the Literature, 1959-1975," The Journal of American History Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jun., 1976), pp. 42-65 in JSTOR
• Formisano, Ronald P. "The Invention of the Ethnocultural Interpretation," The American Historical Review > Vol. 99, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 453-477 in JSTOR
• Formisano, Ronald P. The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827-1861 (1971), uses quantitative electoral data
• Formisano, Ronald P. The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s (1983), uses quantitative electoral data
• Formisano, Ronald P., "The Party Period Revisited". The Journal of American History 86.1 (1999): Online through JSTOR
• Formisano, Ronald P., "Political Character, Antipartyism, and the Second Party System," American Quarterly, 21 (Winter 1969), 683-709; in JSTOR
• Formisano, Ronald P., "Deferential-Participant Politics: The Early Republic's Political Culture, 1789-1840," American Political Science Review, 68 (June 1974), 473-87. in JSTOR
• Gienapp, William E. "The Myth of Class in Jacksonian America," Journal of Policy History 6 (1994): 232–59.
• Hammond, Bray. Andrew Jackson's Battle with the "Money Power" (1958). ch 8, an excerpt from his Pulitzer-prize-winning Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (1954).
• Hammond, Bray. "Jackson, Biddle, and the Bank of the United States" The Journal of Economic History Vol. 7, No. 1 (May, 1947), pp. 1-23 in JSTOR
• Hammond, The history of political parties in the state of New-York (1850) history to 1840 from MOA Michigan
• Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition (1948), chapter on AJ
• Hofstadter, Richard. "William Leggett, Spokesman of Jacksonian Democracy," Political Science Quarterly Vol. 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1943), pp. 581-594 JSTOR
• Hofstadter, Richard. The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (1969)
• Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999), 1000 pp online edition
• Holt, Michael F. Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln (1992)
• Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007)
• Howe, Daniel Walker. "The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture during the Second Party System," Journal of American History, 77 (March 1991), 1216-39. in JSTOR
• Kearns, Daniel Francis. "Immigrant Catholics, the Market Revolution, and the Creation of Jacksonian Democracy." PhD dissertation U. of Kentucky 2003. 319 pp. Citation: DAI 2003 64(5): 1818-A. DA3092313 Abstract at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Kohl, Lawrence Frederick. The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era (1989) online edition
• Kruman, Marc W. "The Second Party System and the Transformation of Revolutionary Republicanism," Journal of the Early Republic, 12 (Winter 1992), 509-37. Online through JSTOR
• Leonard, Gerald. The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois (2002). online edition
• McCormick, Richard L. The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (New York, 1986)
• McCormick, Richard P. The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (1966) influential state-by-state study
• McCoy, Colin. "Democracy in Print: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1815-1840." PhD dissertation U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2001. 435 pp. DAI 2002 62(8): 2863-A. DA3023140 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Mayo, Edward L. "Republicanism, Antipartyism, and Jacksonian Party Politics: A View from the Nation's Capitol," American Quarterly, 31 (Spring 1979), 3-20. Online through JSTOR
• Marshall, Lynn. "The Strange Stillbirth of the Whig Party," American Historical Review, 72 (Jan. 1967), 445-68. in JSTOR
• Myers, Marvin. The Jacksonian Persuasion.- Politics and Belief (1957)
• Pessen, Edward. Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics (1978)
• Pessen, Edward, ed. The Many-Faceted Jacksonian Era: New Interpretations (1977). essays by scholars. online edition
• Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography, (1998)
• Remini, Robert V. Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959) online edition
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Jackson. (1945). Pulitzer Prize for History, intellectual history focused on Eastern labor spokesmen; downplays West
• Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991), influential reinterpretation excerpt and text search; online complete edition
• Sellers, Charles. James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843 (1987) online edition
• Sellers, Charles. "Andrew Jackson Versus the Historians," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 49 (1958), 615-34, review of historiography in JSTOR
• Shade, William G. “The Second Party System” in Paul Kleppner et al, Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1983) uses quantitative electoral data
• Sharp, James Roger. The Jacksonians Versus the Banks: Politics in the States after the Panic of 1837 (1970). Uses quantitative electoral data
• Silbey, Joel H. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991) online edition
• Silbey, Joel H. Political Ideology and Voting Behavior in the Age of Jackson (1973)
• Syrett, Harold C. Andrew Jackson: His Contribution to the American Tradition (1953) online edition
• Taylor, George Rogers, ed. Jackson Versus Biddle: The Struggle over the Second Bank of the United States (1949), excerpts from primary and secondary sources online edition
• Van Deusen, Glyndon G. The Jacksonian Era: 1828-1848 (1963) standard scholarly survey
• Wallace, Michael . "Changing Concepts of Party in the United States: New York, 1815-1828," American Historical Review, 74 (Dec. 1968), 453-91. in JSTOR
• Ward, John William; Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age (1962) online edition
• Wilentz, Sean. "On Class and Politics in Jacksonian America" Reviews in American History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects (Dec., 1982) pp. 45-63. [1]
• Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005), highly detailed scholarly synthesis.
• Wilson, Major L.; Space, Time, and Freedom: The Quest for Nationality and the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815-1861 (1974). Intellectual history of Whigs and Democrats online edition
• Wilson, Major L."Republicanism and the Idea of Party in the Jacksonian Period," Journal of the Early Republic 8 (Winter 1988), pp. 419-442; in JSTOR