Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
| ISBN: | 9780226354798 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 1984 |
| Author: | Daniel Walker Howe |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press an imprint of The University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 414 pages |
| Series: | Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Political parties and party platforms |