| Contents |
Introduction / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith -- "Parties are unavoidable" : path dependence and the origins of party politics in the United States / Douglas Bradburn -- Rethinking the origins of partisan democracy in the United States, 1795-1840 / Reeve Huston -- Party, nation, and cultural rupture : the crisis of the American Civil War / John L. Brooke -- Jeffersonian parties, politics, and participation : the tortuous trajectory of American democracy / Andrew W. Robertson -- An "era of no feelings"? : rethinking the relationship between political parties and popular participation in the early United States / Daniel Peart -- Was there a second party system? : Illinois as a case study in antebellum politics / Graham A. Peck -- Legitimacy, localism, and the first party system / Kenneth Owen -- "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" : immigrants and popular politics in precivil war New York / Tyler Anbinder -- Small men, best men, and the big city : reconstructing political culture in antebellum Philadelphia / Andrew Heath -- Approaches to democratization : engagement versus capability / Johann N. Neem -- Afterword / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith. |
