附註:Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-303) and index.
Political innovation and popular response in Jack Downing's America -- The maturing party system: the rude republic and its discontents -- Political men: patterns and meanings of political activism in Antebellum America -- A world beyond politics -- Civil crisis and the developing state -- People and politics: the urbanization of political consciousness -- Leviathan: parties and political life in post-Civil War America -- An excess and a dearth of democracy: patronage, voting, and political engagement in the gilded age and beyond.
