Community and Consensus in Ante-Bellum America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Collins (corresponding author), B W Collins |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 635-663 |
| Publication date | 1976-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00010414 |
| OpenAlex | W2169687138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 54 |
American local history has been much studied, but rarely integrated into the general history of the country. Although greater attention is now being paid to the connexions between local political, social and economic developments and national trends, there is still a very real disparity in historiographical emphasis between national issues and the problems of community life experienced by Americans in the past. For no period, perhaps, is this disparity so graphic as for the mid-nineteenth century; the years from about 1840 to the 1870s or the 1880s were convulsed by sectional rivalries, civil war and reconstruction, to which matters historians have devoted their attention. Steadily, however, the local communities themselves have come under scrutiny. But the major interpretation currently accepted reinforces, rather than qualifies, the general picture we have of that period, since the North, at least, is regarded as buoyant and expansive in the mid-century, pursuing with relentless self-confidence such aims as help to explain the coming, and the winning, of the Civil War; reform, moral and educational improvement, and the opening of economic opportunities to yeomen farmers, artisans and small merchants
Aesthetics · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Expansive · Historiography · Interpretation (philosophy · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law
Free soil, free labor, free men
The Americans.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
Men and wealth in the United States, 1850-1870
The education of Henry Adams
The Southerner as American
Democracy in America
Law vs. Politics
Two Roads to Sumter
The American Political Tradition”
Economic Policy in the Development of a Western State
The Southerner as American
The Birth of Mass Political Parties
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
A Matter of Allegiances
Forging a Majority
Tennessee
Founding the American Colonies, 1583-1660
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
Prologue to Conflict
Levels of Nineteenth-Century American Investment in Education
Business and Politics in America from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War
The Emergency of Urban Society in Rural Massachusetts, 1760-1820
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
The Politics of Impatience
American economic growth, an economist's history of the United States
Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln
Sources of Anti-Lawyer Sentiment in Massachusetts, 1740-1840
The Frontier Lawyer's Library; Southern Indiana, 1800-1850, as a Test Case
The Disruption of American Democracy
Tennessee
Population in History Essays in Historical Demography
The Power Structure
The Idea of a Party System
The Birth of Mass Political Parties
The Power Structure
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2005 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |