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by Page Smith| 1979| 894 pages| 52| English

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The 2nd offering in Smith’s People’s History, this volume, like its predecessor, earns its title by being accessible to the general reader rather than by demagoguery. In telling the story of the 1st half-century of the Republic Smith does include Shays Whiskey Rebellions and u0026 looks into the conditions of women and u0026 slaves, as well as the and “lower orders and “; but he integrates these concerns into a complete historical panorama (unlike Howard Zinn’s recent A People’s History of the United States). Overall, he organizes the period from 1776 to 1826 around an American and “schizophrenia and ” represented by two different views of people and u0026 government: on the one hand, the and “Classical-Christian and ” view (represented by the Federalists) of the sinfulness and u0026 limitations of humanity; on the other, the and “Secular-Democratic and ” belief (held by the Democratic-Republicans) in the perfectability and u0026 genuine equality of mortals. The 1st view is realized in the Constitution, according to Smith, and u0026 is spelled out in the Federalist Papers, while the 2nd inspired the Declaration and u0026 later became the ideology atop an essentially Classical-Christian polity. The election of 1800’s defeat of the Federalists is the turning-point in the account, really marking a watershed between the two views. He uses the occasion to break his narrative with chapters on cities and u0026 the countryside, the family, religion, medicine, art, education, the west and u0026 the south, before resuming with the Presidency of Jefferson. Arguing that the period was one of growing rationalization in religion and u0026 mores, he describes and “our schizophrenia: we were to become the most powerful capitalist industrial power in the world under the banner of Jeffersonian agrarian democracy. and ” The opposition here, then, is basically the familiar one between Jefferson and u0026 Adams-Hamilton, and u0026 Smith’s preference is clearly for the latter pair. But even if his division is overly schematic, he manages to incorporate all the major events of the 1st half-century, from Independence to Andrew Jackson, with a social-historian’s eye for the everyday, and u0026 that makes this a very valuable contribution to our historical self-understanding.–Kirkus (edited)

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Author:Page Smith
Publication Year:1979
ISBN:9780070590175
Pages:894
Language:English
File Size:52
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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