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The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era /

Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life, and that political historians have gone too far in asserting th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neely, Mark E., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Series:Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Household gods : material culture, the home, and the boundaries of engagement with politics
  • A new and profitable branch of trade : beyond the boundaries of respectability?
  • A secret fund : the Union League, patriotism, and the boundaries of social class
  • Minstrelsy, race, and the boundaries of American political culture.