The Dominion of Voice : Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics / Kimberly K. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Kimberly K., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States--History--19th century.

Political culture.

Political culture--Northeastern States--History--19th century.

Riots--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Riots.

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.

Northeastern States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Northeastern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [1999]

Summary:

In this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did passion disappear from the ideology (if not the practice) of American democracy? To answer these questions, she focuses on the political culture of the urban North during the turbulent Jacksonian Age, roughly 1830-50, when the shape and character of the democratic public were still fluid.

Contents:

Mob action

Eighteenth-century riots

Rioting in the Antebellum era

Public debate

Neoclassical rhetoric and political oratory

Enlightenment rationalism and political debate

Narrative testimony

Storytelling

Sympathy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700633708

0700633707

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06193 hdl