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by Edward Pessen. 338 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edward Pessen

Publisher:

   Greenwood Press

Place of Publication:

  Westport, CT  

Publication Year:

  1977
Subjects:   United States--Economic Conditions--To 1865, United States--Social Conditions--To 1865, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861
Table of contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
Part One: SOCIETY 5
EDWARD PESSEN The Egalitarian Myth and the American Social Reality: Wealth, Mobility, and Equality in the "Era of the Common Man" 7
BARBARA WELTER The Cult of True Womanhood. 1820-1860 47
PETER R. KNIGHTS Out-Migration from Boston, 1830-1860 70
LEONARD P. CURRY Urbanization and Urbanism in the Old South 82
Part Two: THE ECONOMY 99
PETER TEMIN The Jacksonian Economy 101
DAVID MONTGOMERY The Shuttle and the Cross. Weavers and Artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844 114
HERBERT G. GUTMAN The Occupational Structure and the Alleged Social Mobility of Slaves 142
ROBERT W. FOGEL How Important Were Railroads to the Antebellum Economy? 157
Part Three: POLITICS 175
RICHARD H. BROWN The Missouri Crisis, Slavery, and the Politics of Jacksonianism 177
MAJOR L. WILSON What Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats Meant by Freedom 192
HERBERT ERSHKOWITZ AND WILLIAM G. SHADE Consensus or Conflict? Political Behavior in the State Legislatures During the Jacksonian Era 212
EDWARD PESSEN Who Governed the Nation's Cities in the "Era of the Common Man"? 242
Part Four: REFORM 261
AILEEN S. KRADITOR Garrison's Political Tactics Reevaluated 263
MICHAEL B.KATZ Educational Promoters and the High School 274
DAVID J. ROTHMAN Antebellum Concepts of Prison Reform 290
LOIS W. BANNER Religious Benevolence as Social Control. A Critique of an Interpretation 302
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 323
INDEX 327
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