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WiSe 20/21: The Rise and Fall of the Common Man

Maria-Michaela Hampf

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In-person teaching: only students registered on Campus Management can participate

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The Jacksonian Period (1829-1837) has been dubbed „The Age of the Common Man” in the older literature. New research has shed a fresh light on the role of Andrew Jackson in American society and politics. It has questioned the overwhelming importance of the seventh president and has shown that the “common man” was on the ascent long before Jackson won his presidential election. The enfranchisement of male white voters without regard of their economic status, the development of a male-centered ideology of work and the home, the separation of the female and the male “spheres” and the emphasis on the importance of material production as self-employed artisan or yeoman (despite the wide-spread existence of wage labor and slavery) contributed to the rise of the ”common man”. At the same time, the forces of the market were unleashed, thereby transforming the hitherto agrarian United States into a market society, based on the exchange of products and services across long distances. This transportation revolution was made possible by massive internal improvements, above all the construction of roads, turnpikes, canals, and harbors and facilitated white settlement on Native American land. For a more complete picture of the Jacksonian Period, the seminar will also aim at understanding the Indian removal policy, Indian wars, the extension of slavery into the Deep South, as well as the position of the “common (white) women”. Schließen

15 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 14:00 - 16:00 15 Termine

Do, 05.11.2020 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Maria-Michaela Hampf