Rude Republic
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Activism
Americans
Archivist
Assassination
Author_Glenn C. Altschuler
Author_Stuart M. Blumin
Ballot
Bank War
Bribery
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Caucus
Central Committee
Constitutionalist (UK)
Cornell University
Criticism
Cynicism (contemporary)
Demagogue
Distrust
Election
Electoral district
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Gilded Age
Government
Grand Army of the Republic
Harper's Weekly
His Family
Hostility
Institution
Jacksonian democracy
James A. Garfield
Laborer
Literature
Local election
Middle class
Mr. Dooley
Newspaper
Nomination
Nullification Crisis
Participatory democracy
Party leader
Party system
Patriotism
Plantation era
Political Affairs (magazine)
Political campaign
Political consciousness
Political corruption
Political culture
Political machine
Political Man
Political party
Political science
Politician
Politics
Politics of the United States
Polling place
Public administration
Public policy
Public sphere
Republicanism
Second Party System
Slavery
Suffrage
Suggestion
Tariff
Tax
The Other Hand
The Political Process
Town meeting
Urban politics
Urbanization
Voter turnout
Voting
Wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9780691089867
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 enthusiasm. But rarely have these historians examined popular political engagement directly, or within the broader contexts of day-to-day life. In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes.
They consider the enthusiastic commitment celebrated by historians together with various forms of skepticism, conflicted engagement, detachment, and hostility that rarely have been recognized as part of the American political landscape. Rude Republic sets the political parties and their noisy and attractive campaign spectacles, as well as the massive turnout of voters on election day, within the communal social structure and calendar, the local human landscape of farms, roads, and county towns, and the organizational capacities of emerging nineteenth-century institutions. Political action and engagement are set, too, within the tide of events: the construction of the mass-based party system, the gathering crisis over slavery and disunion, and the gradual expansion of government (and of cities) in the post-Civil War era. By placing the question of popular engagement within these broader social, cultural, and historical contexts, the authors bring new understanding to the complex trajectory of American democracy.
Glenn C. Altschuler is Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. His books include Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned Over District and Better than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill. Stuart M. Blumin is Professor of American History at Cornell University and the Director of Cornell-in-Washington. He has written several books, including The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900.
