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Democratizing the Old Dominion : Virginia and the second party system, 1824-1861

Title
Democratizing the Old Dominion : Virginia and the second party system, 1824-1861 / William G. Shade.
Author
Shade, William G.
Publication
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.

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xvii, 365 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 25 cm
Summary
  • The Emergence of the two-party system in the 1830s led to the democratization of the nation and to decades of heated dispute about democracy. In Democratizing the Old Dominion, the first comprehensive study of antebellum Virginia politics, William G. Shade demonstrates that Virginia typified the nation more closely than did any other state both in the emergence and development of the two-party system and in economic development.
  • Shade places the antebellum debate over slavery and states' rights in the context of early discussion on these subjects by Jefferson and Madison. He shows how the diversity of opinion on these issues was shaped by politics. Discussing the many conflicts within Virginia and the South, he debunks the myth of the unique South and argues that the similarities between North and South were more numerous than the differences.
  • The author also provides a thorough analysis of Virginia's many regional cultures, looking at them comparatively as well as in the context of national party conflicts.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-353) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Partisan Leader -- 1. Notes on the State of Virginia -- 2. The Constitution of Virginia -- 3. A Candid State of Parties -- 4. Out of the Nature of Things -- 5. One Hundred and Seventy-Three Despots -- 6. A Review of the Slave Question -- 7. The Doctrines of '98 -- 8. Political Development and Political Decay -- App. 1. The Augusta County Whig Connection -- App. 2. Voting Blocs on Slavery in the House of Delegates, 1832.
ISBN
0813916542 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96002709
OCLC
ocm34617804
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries