LEADER 03396nam 22006612 450 001 9910818220303321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-107-14834-0 010 $a1-280-54084-2 010 $a0-511-21428-6 010 $a0-511-21607-6 010 $a0-511-21070-1 010 $a0-511-31501-5 010 $a0-511-60672-9 010 $a0-511-21247-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353245 035 $a(EBL)266585 035 $a(OCoLC)560235184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101926 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113733 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101926 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10047618 035 $a(PQKB)10461146 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511606724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC266585 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL266585 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10131626 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL54084 035 $a(OCoLC)697467591 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353245 100 $a20090910d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century /$fRichard Franklin Bensel$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-53786-X 311 $a0-521-83101-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Structure and Practice of Elections; 3 Social Construction of Identity in Eastern Rural Communities; 4 Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities; 5 Frontier Democracy; 6 Loyalty Oaths, Troops, and Elections during the Civil War; 7 Conclusion; Index 330 $aDuring the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely interpreted as reflections of the preferences of individual voters and thus seem to unambiguously document the existence of a robust democratic ethos. By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats, in turn, help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making. 606 $aVoting$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aElections$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aVoting$xHistory 615 0$aElections$xHistory 676 $a324.973/07 700 $aBensel$b Richard Franklin$f1949-$01662905 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818220303321 996 $aThe American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century$94080700 997 $aUNINA