Rude republic
Subtitle: Americans and their politics in the nineteenth century
By: Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin.
Contributors: Blumin, Stuart M.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Elections -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political participation -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Description: "Historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and wide-spread political enthusiasm. In this 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-303) and index.