Rude Republic : : Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century / / Glenn C. Altschuler, Stuart M. Blumin.
What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthus...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The View from Clifford's Window
- Chapter 1. Political Innovation and Popular Response in Jack Downing's America
- Chapter 2. The Maturing Party System: The Rude Republic and Its Discontents
- Chapter 3. Political Men: Patterns and Meanings of Political Activism in Antebellum America
- Chapter 4. A World beyond Politics
- Chapter 5. Civil Crisis and the Developing State
- Chapter 6. People and Politics: The Urbanization of Political Consciousness
- Chapter 7. Leviathan: Parties and Political Life in Post-Civil War America
- Chapter 8. An Excess and a Dearth of Democracy: Patronage, Voting, and Political Engagement in the Gilded Age and Beyond
- Notes
- Index