Title: Rude Republic
Subtitle: Americans and their politics in the nineteenth 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political culture, Elections, History, Political participation, United states, politics and government, 19th century, Elections, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century