Joel H Silbey
Biographic Data
| ID | 526654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel H Silbey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Silbey |
| SIGNATURE | SILBEY J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent – By Robert W. Merry
Presidential scholars and everyday U.S. citizens apparently cannot escape the ghost of Ronald Reagan.In The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America, Toby Glenn Bates justifies his study because "not a single scholar who focused exclusively on Reagan's rhetoric approached the subject as a historian" (p.5).The author contends that Reagan's consistency in his rhetoric about issues, such as states' rights, Vietnam, and the Iran-Contra af…
American Political Parties: History, Voters, Critical Elections, and Party Systems
This article provides a sweeping analysis of the history of American political parties. It specifically uses the lens of critical election theory to explore the scholarly treatment of the development of parties as institutions, of the relationship between parties and the electorate, of the means that parties have used to communicate with and build relationships with the electorate, and of the existence and definition of party systems. The Democra…
Regimes, Epochs, State Authority, and the Nature of American Political Life over Two Centuries
Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics
Chapter 1: Tavern Keeper's Son: Making of a Politician, 1782-1812 Chapter 2: The Partisan I: Master of the State, 1812-1821 Chapter 3: The Partisan II: Senator From New York, 1821-1828 Chapter 4: Seats of the Mighty, 1828-1832 Chapter 5: Democracy's Heir Apparent, 1832-1836 Chapter 6: At the Summit: Eighth President of the United States, 1837-1841 Chapter 7: The People Could Not Be Rallied for Van Buren Chapter 8: Partisan Leader at Bay, 1841-184…
The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876
The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876. Volume 1, 1828-1856. Volume 2, 1854-1876. Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 284. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-02645-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-02642-X; Pp. xxvi, 272. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-02646-2; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-02643-8.) Half a century ago, claptrap was the most popular academ…
Current Historiographic Trends in the Study of the Twentieth-Century Congress
Once upon a time, historians and political scientists expended a great deal of effort in tracing the complex development of the United States Congress in the twentieth century—a time, especially from the 1930s onward, during which Congress faced a remarkable expansion in government activity as a surge of new concerns, foreign and domestic, and, as a result, an unprecedented load of business, all but overwhelmed the institution. During this same t…
The State and Practice of American Political History at the Millennium: The Nineteenth Century as a Test Case
These are very hard times for students of American political history. Not so long ago they were a peppy and optimistic bunch and believed that they had every reason to be. For those scholars who focused their attention on nineteenth-century politics in particular, the avalanche of revisionist work from the quantitatively and behaviorally oriented “new” political historians, beginning in the late 1950s, as well as the constant outpouring of more t…
American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline
In 1995 more than 100 historians gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a conference convened to honour the American historian Vincent P. De Santis. This collection of essays from the conference aims to describe and define the state of political history at the end of the 20th century
Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress
Race, Campaign Politics, & the Realignment in the South
Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy
Journal Article Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy. By Robert H. Wiebe. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. x, 321 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-89562-9.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Page 1538, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945314 Published: 01 March 1…
Demythologizing an Elite: American Presidents in Empirical, Comparative, and Historical Perspective
Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869
The Congress as Research Arena: An Uneasy Partnership between History and Political Science: A Review Essay
A Reply to Byron E. Shafer
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Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s
Journal Article Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1830s. By Tyler Anbinder. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xvi, 330 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-19507233-2.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1093–1094, https://doi.org/10.2…
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Hegemony of the Market Questioned
Charles Sellers's fervent reconceptualization of what was once called the Age of Jackson gives new force to an emerging scholarly consensus about the era. He is awestruck by the hegemonic power of market capitalism to destabilize, and then destroy, traditional patterns of community, work, and ultimately and decisively, politics. In the pre-market era, American political life was characterized by the localism of the subsistence culture. In the ear…
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Journal Article The American Political Nation, 1838–1893. By Joel H. Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press and The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras. Ed. by Byron E. Shafer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Get access Ronald P. Formisano Ronald P. Formisano University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 199…
The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency
Journal Article The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency. By Allan J. Lichtman and Ken DeCell. (Lanham: Madison, 1990. xiv + 449 pp. $24.95.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078169 Published: 01 June 1991
Cobblestone Leadership: Majority Rule, Minority Power
Journal Article Cobblestone Leadership: Majority Rule, Minority Power. By James MacGregor Burns. With L. Marvin Overby. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. xvi + 144 pp. $17.95.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1036, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078810 Published: 01 December…
State Parties and National Politics: North Carolina, 1815-1861
Research on 19th Century Legislatures: Present Contours and Future Directions
Conventional research in the history of legislatures has been abundant but unsystematic and incomplete. An empirical, social science tradition has developed recently, however, most strikingly in the study of the nineteenthand early twentiethcentury U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Systematic roll-call, biographical, and constituency analysis of those bodies suggests a political universe different from that of our own time, one in which stron…
Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Culture
Delegates Fresh from the People: American Congressional and Legislative Behavior
Delegates Fresh from People: American Congressional and Legislative Behavior Systematic quantitative research in congressional and state legislative history has same virtues as similar research in other areas: ability to examine behavior of large masses of individuals with great precision and to uncover insights and relationships hitherto unknown or only partially understood. History of this kind attempts to refine crude generalizations and impre…
Congressional and State Legislative Roll-Call Studies by U. S. Historians
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
Journal Article Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xxi + 350 pp. $24.95.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 973–974, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901655 Published: 01 December 1988
The State and Practice of American Political History at the Millennium: The Nineteenth Century as a Test Case
These are very hard times for students of American political history. Not so long ago they were a peppy and optimistic bunch and believed that they had every reason to be. For those scholars who focused their attention on nineteenth-century politics in particular, the avalanche of revisionist work from the quantitatively and behaviorally oriented “new” political historians, beginning in the late 1950s, as well as the constant outpouring of more t…
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Journal Article The American Political Nation, 1838–1893. By Joel H. Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press and The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras. Ed. by Byron E. Shafer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Get access Ronald P. Formisano Ronald P. Formisano University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 199…
Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy
Journal Article Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy. By Robert H. Wiebe. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. x, 321 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-89562-9.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Page 1538, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945314 Published: 01 March 1…
Congress at the Bicentennial: A Comment
To a historian interested in Congress, these articles provide striking evidence of the payoffs possible from an exciting enterprise currently underway in legislative studies. Political scientists are expanding their reach by systematically digging into the richness of Congress's past, an activity that promises important theoretical and descriptive rewards. Each of the authors is an old hand at this kind of research, and each knows what he or she …
The Behavior of State Legislative Parties in the Jacksonian Era: New Jersey, 1829-1844
Journal Article The Behavior of State Legislative Parties in the Jacksonian Era: New Jersey, 1829–1844. By Peter D. Levine. (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. 285 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65,…
Regimes, Epochs, State Authority, and the Nature of American Political Life over Two Centuries
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893
Cobblestone Leadership: Majority Rule, Minority Power
Journal Article Cobblestone Leadership: Majority Rule, Minority Power. By James MacGregor Burns. With L. Marvin Overby. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. xvi + 144 pp. $17.95.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1036, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078810 Published: 01 December…
The Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives: A Bibliography, 1789-1984
Journal Article The Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives: A Bibliography, 1789–1984. Ed. by Donald R. Kennon. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xxx + 323 pp. $37.50.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Page 1106, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904184 Published: 01 March 1…
First Steps Toward a History of Congress
The Incomplete World of American Politics, 1815-1829: Presidents, Parties and Politics in “The Era of Good Feelings
Beyond strong presidents and memorable administrations, other forces have influenced the shape of past American politics. Before Andrew Jackson's election in 1828, much coherence and direction existed on the political scene. There was a pervasive national partisan focus to the era despite the lack of strong presidents and great events. Specific partisan memories provoked by past conflicts and prejudices persisted, helping define what was at stake…
The Vineyard of Liberty: The American Experiment
History - Theory
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy
Journal Article Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy. By Chaplain W. Morrison. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. viii + 244 pp. Notes and index. $6.00.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937458…
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
John C. Calhoun and the Limits of Southern Congressional Unity, 1841‐1850
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
Journal Article The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841–1852. By Joel H. Silbey. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, appendixes, bibliographic note, and index. $6.00.) Get access Frank Otto Gatell Frank Otto Gatell University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, September 1967, …
Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy
Journal Article Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy. By Chaplain W. Morrison. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. viii + 244 pp. Notes and index. $6.00.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937458…
The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior, 1841-1852
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama
(1969). POPULISM TO PROGRESSIVISM IN ALABAMA. Historical Methods Newsletter: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 9-11.
Daniel Webster and the Politics of Availability
Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration
The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827-1861
Journal Article The Birth of Mass Political Parties: Michigan, 1827–1861. By Ronald P. Formisano. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. xii + 356 pp. Map, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $12.50.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 713–714, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900…
Abolitionism: A New Perspective
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Iniquitous Institutions
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era 1860-1868
When the Minority is Respectable, "Purists" are "Legitimists
Division and Reunion: America 1848-1877
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868
Journal Article A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868. By Joel H. Silbey. (New York: Norton, 1977. xviii + 267 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographic note, and index. $10.95.) Get access Frank L. Klement Frank L. Klement Marquette University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, Pages 785–786, https://doi.org/10.2307…
The Behavior of State Legislative Parties in the Jacksonian Era: New Jersey, 1829-1844
Journal Article The Behavior of State Legislative Parties in the Jacksonian Era: New Jersey, 1829–1844. By Peter D. Levine. (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. 285 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Get access Joel H. Silbey Joel H. Silbey Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65,…
Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America
student-professor world of the 1890s provide some fascinating material and would be of particular interest to the historian with proclivities for the American social and/or educational experience.This section of the monograph is largely based on the author's fortuitous discovery in the Grand View walk-in vault of a dauy journal covering four of the school's five years and which was kept by its two principal professors.However, the major contribut…
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868
History - Theory
The History of American Electoral Behavior
The History of American Electoral Behavior
The History of American Electoral Behavior
Journal Article The History of American Electoral Behavior. Ed. by Joel H. Silbey, Allan G. Bogue, and William H. Flanigan. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xv + 384 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $12.50.) Get access Michael F. Holt Michael F. Holt University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979…
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