The Whig promise: the antebellum rise of middle-class political culture

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dc.contributorKohl, Lawrence Frederick
dc.contributorFrederickson, Kari A.
dc.contributorGiggie, John Michael
dc.contributorMegraw, Richard B.
dc.contributor.advisorRable, George C.
dc.contributor.authorPearson, Joseph William
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-26T14:23:22Z
dc.date.available2017-04-26T14:23:22Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Whig Promise argues that antebellum American Whigs shared an observable middle-class worldview, and this perspective informed their politics, as well as their wider lives. My works explores the Whig mind along five broad, related themes: the Individual, Society, the State, the Past, and the Future. In my view, these topics offer the best windows into the shared outlook of the first group of Americans to embrace middle-class values, character, and temperament. Further, this study demonstrates that Whig political thought was geared toward the future, not the past, and Whigs believed the state should support individuals’ and broader groups’ efforts to work together to achieve material prosperity, promote intellectual development, and prevent public disorder. Whigs were deeply optimistic about America’s possibilities, so long as individual Americans developed self-control.en_US
dc.format.extent248 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0001984
dc.identifier.otherPearson_alatus_0004D_12398
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/3004
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectHistory
dc.titleThe Whig promise: the antebellum rise of middle-class political cultureen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of History
etdms.degree.disciplineHistory
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.
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