Rude republic : Americans and their politics in the nineteenth century / Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin

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Contents: Political innovation and popular response in Jack Downing's America -- The maturing party system: the rude republic and its discontents -- Political men: patterns and meanings of political activism in Antebellum America -- A world beyond politics -- Civil crisis and the developing state -- People and politics: the urbanization of political consciousness -- Leviathan: parties and political life in post-Civil War America -- An excess and a dearth of democracy: patronage, voting, and political engagement in the gilded age and beyond

Topic: Elections--History; Political participation--History; Political culture--History; Politics and government