Lords of the Ascendant
Mercantile Biography and Irving's Astoria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895768 |
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| Authors | Alan Leander MacGregor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-30 |
| Publication date | 1990-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-021-01-02 |
| OpenAlex | W2023890843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Jacksonian period of the 1830s shows the emergent forces of liberal capitalism rising to economic dominance. The emerging values of this new commercial hegemony were supported by many apologists, but other voices, speaking for the "genteel" older cultural matrix of inherited wealth and established culture, expressed dismay at, even abhorrence toward, the commonplace culture that Jacksonian economic and social democracy was creating
Biography · Biology · Capitalism · Democracy · Dominance (genetics · Economic history · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social democracy · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Humor Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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