Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860

Abstract

political scientist with meticulous archival research into the papers and writings of leading political and religious figures in frontier Illinois, the author offers penetrating insights into the nature of liberal democracy in the age of Jackson.His work reminds us that westernstyle republicanism configured race, class, and culture in ways that tested the limits and possibilities of democracy in riineteenth-century America and resonates in the idenfity politics of our own age.