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Contents: The volume explores the theme of nationalism as it emerged from the post-war illusion of a strong-free nation, which yielded no special privilege to class or group and was moved into "the harsher and more testing realm of interest, prejudice and appetite." The American people emerged from the War of 1812, Mr Dangerfield says with "less of a shout of triumph than a sigh of relief." Republican one-party rule was dominant, and America entered on the short-lived "Era of Good Feelings." By the end of 1828 the nation had experienced "the agonized passing of the Jeffersonian world." John Quincy Evans, whose philosophy of economic nationalism was at once too visionary and too rigid, had gone down to defeat The brilliant careers of Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had been eclipsed. Andrew Jackson had triumphed, and with him, the powerful movement toward democratic nationalism. Among the events and issues affecting relationships with foreign powers duing the period were The Transcontinental Treaty with Spain, the Panic of 1819, the McCulloch v. Maryland decision, the Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, the West Indies trade controversy, and the Tarriff of Abominations in 1828. Chapters: Illustrations: Maps |
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Contents/Synopsis: On a warm night in September, a number of well-dressed young men started out from a restaurant in Baltimore's west end to serenade newly-wed friends. These were not just any young men, but leaders of Baltimore's most feared "political club", a.k.a the Plug Uglies, whose reputation and exploits were fast spreading across the country. By the time the night was over they had crashed a party; a police officer lay dead in the street; and one of their number-handsome soft-spoken Henry Clay Gambrill-was in jail. This book puts the reader amid the raw colour and mayhem of Baltimore's tumultuous streets as never before; the author has really brought to life the gangs behind the anti-catholic anti-immigrant violence of the 1850s: The Rip Raps, Black Snakes and Blood Tubs; the Regulators, Rough Skins, Double Pumps, and Calithumpians. The author also writes about the New Market Fire Company and their deadly rivals the Mount Vernon Hook and Ladder, whose members paraded under the Plug Ugly banner. "Country" Thompson, Petty Naff and Arch McAleese lurk and swagger through the pages of this book alongside Crab Ashby, "Ready" Craig, Kitty Chambers, and Boney Lee, assassinating rivals, battling at the polls and even provoking intervention by the US Marines, who were brought in to protect the ballot in the US capital. As the reader moves through the book, they will see that the Baltimore mayors, Maryland governors and congressmen fully exploited the large and sophisticated gangs in operation, who hid behind an apparently impregnable wall of power, influence and judicial corruption; that is they did until that night of the 6th September when a crime and subsequent arrest set in motion a chain of events that led to their betrayal and downfall About the Author: At the time of publication, Tracy Matthew Melton wrote and taught 19th Century urban history; and lived with his wife and three children in Oakton, Virginia |
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Contents: The epic story of American society, from pre-Colonial times to the end of the Civil War is unfolded here in a swift and sweeping synthesis. John Alden has sought primarily to put the multitudinous facets of the rich and varied past, so often separately studied by others, into a clear and just perspective. He begins with a notable chapter on the American Indians, and then goes on to the English, French, and other pioneers, emphasizing the educaitonal, religious and political heritage each brought from Europe. He presents a swift and lucid picture of the Colonial Period, usually shown as an intricate morass of sectarian bickering. He puts the American Revolution, the writing of the constitution, and the opportune Louisiana Purchase into the panorama of world history. He shows how the aristocratic federalists were ousted by a second and more democratic revolution, the Jacksonian, and makes clear the powerful social forces at work. As the pioneers moved west, the very foundations of American society were altered. And the Civil War was a crucial social as well as political turning point Chapters: Includes the maps: About the Author: |
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