HIST308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Jacksonian Democracy, Transcendentalism, Muscogee
26 Sep 2016
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Foreign commentators speaking within the context of a type of european romanticism, called jackson one of nature"s noblemen" usually in this sense nature was used abstractly; as a normative idea it was neg. , meant to deny certain vices of european civilization rather than to affirm nature in the concrete. Americans were willing to accept the idea that nature, symbolized by the forest, was the source of vitality, but their attitude was ambivalent. Jackson he grew up in the wilds of the west, but he was the noblest tree in the forest . Seems inconsistent to affirm american troops in terms of nature as in hunters of kentucky; and at the same time to derogate the foe in terms of civilization. Conflict between two value systems organized around an antithetical concepts; can even be detected in ways of their fighting. Before main battle, americans harassed british lines constantly. British were recruited from cities, unlike the americans.
