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A01=Paul Bourke
Author_Donald A. DeBats
Author_Paul Bourke
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801859465
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 1998
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the 1850s, Washington County, Oregon, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America -- rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestant and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. More than that, however, it left for historians a rare opportunity to explore political, social, and cultural trends in American history due to its unique practice of viva voce voting -- announcing individual ballots publicly rather than recording them in secret. Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats tap into this remarkable resource to reveal how individual political identities developed and political choices were made.
Paul Bourke is professor of history in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. Donald DeBats is professor of American Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
