Invisible sovereign : : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction / / Mark G. Schmeller.
"Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion,' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate t...
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Schmeller, Mark G., 1967- author. Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction / Mark G. Schmeller. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier New studies in American intellectual and cultural history Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination -- The moral economy of opinion -- The political economy of opinion -- Partisan manufactories of public sentiment -- The importance of having opinion -- The fatal force of public opinion -- Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises -- Conclusion : corn-pone opinion -- Essay on sources. "Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion,' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate the nature of public opinion between independence and the aftermath of Civil War and also examine what leading Americans thought about it. Where could one detect it? How might attitudes toward it, in the abstract and concrete, have changed in this eventful period? 'As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable concept,' Schmeller explains, 'they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy.' He argues that what began life as something close to exceptionally American republican thought (and in a sense unchanging) became something far more malleable and subject to manipulation by means of stump-speech rhetoric, partisan newspapers, trumpeting of the importance of the self in the nineteenth century, etc. Crossing into so many discrete fields of historical research, this project has much potential as a synthesizing meta-narrative"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Public opinion United States History 18th century. Public opinion United States History 19th century. United States Politics and government 1775-1783. United States Politics and government 1783-1865. United States Politics and government 1865-1877. Electronic books. Print version: Schmeller, Mark G. Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016 New studies in american intellectual and cultural history 9781421418704 ProQuest (Firm) New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=4398489 Click to View |
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Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination -- The moral economy of opinion -- The political economy of opinion -- Partisan manufactories of public sentiment -- The importance of having opinion -- The fatal force of public opinion -- Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises -- Conclusion : corn-pone opinion -- Essay on sources. |
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