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AFFAIRS OF PARTY
THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF NORTHERN DEMOCRATS IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY. |
| By: |
Jean Harvey Baker |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£31.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823218651 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823218653 |
| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
The North's Civil War |
| Pages: |
367 |
| Description: |
An exploration of the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-19th century lived their public lives. The author begins with an explanation of how people became Democrats, and goes on to discuss topics including the Democratic ideology, and their mordant rascism and partisan behaviour. |
| Synopsis: |
Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democrats apart from members of other political organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism conveyed most strikingly through minstrelsy. Finally, Baker studies the neglected subject of partisan behavior, concentrating on the significance of parades, voting, and other rituals. In Affairs of Party Jean Baker brings together the three basic components of a political culture-education, thought, and behavior-and provides an understanding of the collective values of Northern Democrats and an insight into the elusive meaning of party experience. In her new preface, Professor Baker places her book in the context of both recent scholarship and recent political and cultural developments. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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