04162nam 22006972 450 991045302440332120151005020622.01-139-88901-X1-139-79411-61-139-77672-X1-139-77976-11-139-78370-X1-139-14940-71-139-78275-41-283-71471-X1-139-77824-2(CKB)2550000000708214(EBL)1042505(OCoLC)815970166(SSID)ssj0000756766(PQKBManifestationID)11420960(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756766(PQKBWorkID)10751533(PQKB)10776557(UkCbUP)CR9781139149402(MiAaPQ)EBC1042505(Au-PeEL)EBL1042505(CaPaEBR)ebr10618635(CaONFJC)MIL402721(EXLCZ)99255000000070821420110822d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRepresentation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America the politics of apportionment /Peter H. Argersinger[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (x, 340 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-49835-X 1-107-02300-9 Includes bibliographical references and index."Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1888 -- "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893 -- "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892 -- "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1893 -- "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894 -- "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896 -- "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898 -- "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898 -- "Our system of popular representative government": from chaos to control.This book demonstrates that apportionment, although long overlooked by scholars, dominated state politics in late nineteenth-century America, setting the boundaries not only for legislative districts but for the nature of representative democracy. The book examines the fierce struggles over apportionment in the Midwest, where a distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated in effectively disenfranchising their opponents through gerrymanders, growing tensions challenged established patterns of political behaviour and precipitated intense and even dangerous disputes. Unprecedented judicial intervention overturned gerrymanders in stunning decisions that electrified the public but intensified rather than resolved political conflict and uncertainty. Ultimately, America's political ideal of representative democracy was frustrated by its own political institutions, including the courts, because their decisions against gerrymandering in the 1890s helped parties and legislatures entrench the practice as a basic and profoundly undemocratic feature of American politics in the twentieth century.Representation & Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century AmericaApportionment (Election law)United StatesHistory19th centuryElection districtsUnited StatesRepresentative government and representationUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryApportionment (Election law)HistoryElection districtsRepresentative government and representationHistory328.73/0734509034Argersinger Peter H.1047604UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910453024403321Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America2486176UNINA03524nam 2200697Ia 450 991045905830332120200520144314.01-282-79022-697866127902250-520-94719-310.1525/9780520947191(CKB)2670000000055558(EBL)610811(OCoLC)673417644(SSID)ssj0000419533(PQKBManifestationID)11304950(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419533(PQKBWorkID)10383938(PQKB)11261625(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056156(MiAaPQ)EBC610811(DE-B1597)518772(OCoLC)1018083341(DE-B1597)9780520947191(Au-PeEL)EBL610811(CaPaEBR)ebr10420281(CaONFJC)MIL279022(EXLCZ)99267000000005555820100422d2010 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrHeroes of empire[electronic resource] five charismatic men and the conquest of Africa /Edward BerensonBerkeley University of California Press20101 online resource (375 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23427-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Henry Morton Stanley and the New Journalism --2. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Making of the French Third Republic --3. Charles Gordon, Imperial Saint --4. The "Stanley Craze" --5. Jean- Baptiste Marchand, Fashoda, and the Dreyfus Affair --6. Brazza and the Scandal of the Congo --7. Hubert Lyautey and the French Seizure of Morocco --Epilogue --Notes --IndexDuring the decades of empire (1870-1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among "savage" people for their nation's greater good. This vastly readable book, the first comparative history of colonial heroes in Britain and France, shows via unforgettable portraits the shift from public veneration of the peaceful conqueror to unbridled passion for the vanquishing hero. Edward Berenson argues that these five men transformed the imperial steeplechase of those years into a powerful "heroic moment." He breaks new ground by linking the era's "new imperialism" to its "new journalism"-the penny press-which furnished the public with larger-than-life figures who then embodied each nation's imperial hopes and anxieties.Mass mediaFranceHistory19th centuryMass mediaGreat BritainHistory19th centuryExplorersEuropeBiographyExplorersAfricaBiographyAfricaDiscovery and explorationEuropeanElectronic books.Mass mediaHistoryMass mediaHistoryExplorersExplorers916.04/2309224Berenson Edward1949-997230MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459058303321Heroes of empire2450158UNINA