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The Pursuit of public power : political culture in Ohio, 1787-1861 /
Many of the political institutions that would dominate nineteenth-century America (and the Midwest in particular) originated and first evolved in Ohio. The Pursuit of Public Power explores the origins and nature of political culture here from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Twelve essay...
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Kent, Ohio :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.