Democracy and its consequences in Antebellum America: a review essay.(Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln)(Book review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War. By Christopher Clark. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. [xiv], 349. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-686-5.)

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. By Sean Wilentz. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2005. Pp. [xxiv], 1,044. $35.00, ISBN 0-393-05820-4.)

APPARENTLY, THE REPORTS OF THE DEATH OF POLITICAL HISTORY HAVE been greatly exaggerated. Amid multiplying accounts of the decline of narrative political history in the American academy, Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy: ...

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