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On the stump : campaign oratory and democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia /

Stumping," or making political speeches in favor of a candidate, cause, or campaign has been around since before the 1800s, when speechmaking was frequently portrayed as delivered from the base of a tree. The practice, which has been strongly associated with the American frontier, British agita...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scalmer, Sean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontier stumping: Davy Crockett and Henry Clay as orators and symbols
  • Partisan oratory: an American habit
  • From America to the British world: stumping translated and reimagined
  • Rousing the people: the stumping tour in colonial Australia
  • To Midlothian and beyond: Gladstonian stumping, performed and remembered.