The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / / Richard Franklin Bensel [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Bensel Richard Franklin <1949->
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| Titolo: |
The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century / / Richard Franklin Bensel [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 324.973/07 |
| Soggetto topico: | Voting - United States - History - 19th century |
| Elections - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 19th century |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century |
| ISBN: | 1-107-14834-0 |
| 1-280-54084-2 | |
| 0-511-21428-6 | |
| 0-511-21607-6 | |
| 0-511-21070-1 | |
| 0-511-31501-5 | |
| 0-511-60672-9 | |
| 0-511-21247-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784316803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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