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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Jacksonian Era"”.
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The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture
"Overall, the dissertation considers the changes that occurred in election rituals by looking at the electioneering attendant to the early colonial period through the emergence popular mass campaigning in the middle of the Jacksonian era. Chapters One and Two outline the study and the theoretical …
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AMOS KENDALL: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (JACKSON; KENTUCKY; BANKING)
… documents, as well as the standard secondary literature on the Jacksonian period of American history.</p><p>Kendall's career in politics is examined in its entirety, including his activities in Kentucky, his tenure as Postmaster General, and his contributions to the development of the Democratic …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and …
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… Catholicism could be part of the identity that Jacksonian-era Americans were trying to create.</p>
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LITERATURE AND THE DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY: 1763--1828
… character and identity. An analysis of the literature from the early 1760's to the Jacksonian era reveals the manner in which the ideas of democracy, nationalism, and the enlightenment influenced and shaped an American identity during that period.</p>
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… the attention of academic historians, English literary, and Native American Studies scholars. Barry O’Connell of Amherst College compiled and edited Apess’s writings in On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, published by University of Massachusetts Press in 1992. …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… the attention of academic historians, English literary, and Native American Studies scholars. Barry O’Connell of Amherst College compiled and edited Apess’s writings in On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, published by University of Massachusetts Press in 1992. …
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Who Is Our Master? -Debates during Civil Service Reforms-
… of American history. They are the founding era, Jacksonian era, Republican era, and the Carter Administration. These eras were related to the four important civil service reform acts: the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Act of 1883, and the CSRA of 1978. Congressional …