Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German NoblemanUniversity of Missouri Press, 29 de juny 2018 - 394 pàgines In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed so large in early republican Americans’ minds. Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric travel memoir in response to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund’s dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund’s reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Mattes shows how Grund’s work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States. |
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... better the intricate, mazelike structure of the Northern wing of the Democratic Party during the antebellum era in particular. Grund's exceptional success in converting his political services into governmental positions, furthermore ...
... better the intricate, mazelike structure of the Northern wing of the Democratic Party during the antebellum era in particular. Grund's exceptional success in converting his political services into governmental positions, furthermore ...
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... better or worse, often performed both roles. For the history of American political and social thought, most noteworthy are his satirical observations on the nature and role of the American (Whig) elites in the self-consciously ...
... better or worse, often performed both roles. For the history of American political and social thought, most noteworthy are his satirical observations on the nature and role of the American (Whig) elites in the self-consciously ...
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... better than even Tocqueville's famed classic. Grund's book also offers an interpretation of the nature of American (Whig) elites that questions much of the historiography on the subject. For all of these reasons, Aristocracy in America ...
... better than even Tocqueville's famed classic. Grund's book also offers an interpretation of the nature of American (Whig) elites that questions much of the historiography on the subject. For all of these reasons, Aristocracy in America ...
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... may well have seen the better candidate to play the role of a “Caesar.”15 Whatever the primary motivation was for Grund to change sides again, he obviously did not think it a wise choice to publish a satire on American Whig elites.
... may well have seen the better candidate to play the role of a “Caesar.”15 Whatever the primary motivation was for Grund to change sides again, he obviously did not think it a wise choice to publish a satire on American Whig elites.
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... better” sort and thus the endorsement of the ideal of an egalitarian, classless society. Democrats repeatedly emphasized this kind of equality of status—often expressed by contemporaries in the sentiment that “one man is as good as ...
... better” sort and thus the endorsement of the ideal of an egalitarian, classless society. Democrats repeatedly emphasized this kind of equality of status—often expressed by contemporaries in the sentiment that “one man is as good as ...
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Aristocracy in America. From the Sketch-book of a German Nobleman, Volum 1 Francis Joseph Grund Visualització completa - 1839 |
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