Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. I. The Historical Problem of Party Formation 1
6. II. Michigan and the Party System 15
7. III. Economic Interest, Elites, Classes, and Parties: 1837-1852 31
8. IV. Party, Antiparty, and Political Character 56
9. V. Alien Suffrage and Party Formation 81
10. VI. Moral Society v. Laissez Faire Ethics: Evangelicals 102
11. VII. The Whigs and the Moralization of Politics 128
12. VIII. Religious Groups and Parties: 1837-1852 137
13. IX. Ethnocultural Groups and Parties: 1837-1852 165
14. X. Preparation for Change: 1844-1852 195
15. XI. The Old Farty Structure Shakes: 1853 217
16. XII. Rise of the Anti-Democratic Coalition: 1854-1855 239
17. XIII. The Crusade for White Freedom 266
18. XIV. Republicans and Democrats: 1854—1860 289
19. XV. Party, the Antiaristocratic Impulse and the Evangelical Revival 325
20. Appendices 333
21. Index 349