TitleThe Pursuit of public power : political culture in Ohio, 1787-1861 / edited by Jeffrey P. Brown and Andrew R.L. Cayton.
PublishedKent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1994.
Descriptionxxvii, 246 p. : map ; 23 cm.
ISBN0-87338-496-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
Formatted NoteContents: Ohio timeline / prepared by Jeffrey P. Brown -- The political culture of early Ohio / Jeffrey P. Brown -- "This unpleasant business" : the transformation of land speculation in the Ohio country, 1787-1820 / Timothy J. Shannon -- "Language gives way to feelings" : rhetoric, Republicanism, and religion in Jeffersonian Ohio / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- "A candidate I'll surely be" : election practices in early Ohio, 1798-1825 / Emil Pocock -- Benjamin Tappan : the making of a Democrat / Daniel Feller -- Private interest and public good : upland southerners and antebellum midwestern political culture / Nicole Etcheson -- The market revolution and party alignments in Ohio, 1828-1840 / Donald J. Ratcliffe -- Ohio and the rise of sectional politics / Stephen E. Maizlish -- Norton S. Townshend : a reformer for all seasons / Frederick J. Blue and Robert McCormick -- Origins of Republican dominance : John C. Frémont's 1856 victory in Ohio / Vernon L. Volpe -- Ohio's informal polling place : nineteenth-century suffrage in theory and practice / Kenneth J. Winkle.
SubjectsOhio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865.
Political culture -- Ohio -- History.
Other AuthorsBrown, Jeffrey Paul, 1950-
Cayton, Andrew R. L. (Andrew Robert Lee), 1954-
LC Card Number94-6142
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 WRHS Research Library: F 34 E P985
mq25108: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
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