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The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century // Richard Franklin Bensel.
Author:	Bensel, Richard Franklin,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Voting - History - 19th century. - United States -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606724
ISBN:	9780511606724 (ebook)

The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century /
Bensel, Richard Franklin,1949-

The American ballot box in the mid-nineteenth century /Richard Franklin Bensel. - 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely interpreted as reflections of the preferences of individual voters and thus seem to unambiguously document the existence of a robust democratic ethos. By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats, in turn, help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making.

ISBN: 9780511606724 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1445484
Voting
--History--United States--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: JK1967 / .B46 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 324.973/07

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