Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598840179)

This volume in the Perspectives in American Social History series highlights the extraordinary contributions of ordinary men, women, and children in the transformation of the country in the time of Andrew Jackson.
Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives spans the "age of the common man" by focusing on the everyday citizens who helped drive the big social changes of the times--or were simply caught up in them. The coverage takes readers into the lives of the frontiersmen, townspeople, women, children, religious groups, abolitionists, slaves, slave traders, and others who effected, and were affected by, the history of those times.

Jacksonian and Antebellum Age explores a pivotal era in American history, a time that saw the return of the two-party system, heightened voter turnout, and the gathering of the abolitionist movement. As this volume demonstrates, no study of these defining events is complete without understanding how they were shaped by the country's least celebrated citizens.

Author: Mark R. Cheathem
ISBN-10: 1598840177
ISBN-13: 9781598840179
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 10.33h x 6.93w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 84