Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America : Essays in Honor of J.R. Pole

Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America : Essays in Honor of J.R. Pole
ISBN-10
0742520765
ISBN-13
9780742520769
Category
History
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Rebecca Starr

Description

In this book seven distinguished historians explain how a national political culture developed in America. A political culture is both the collectivity of a community's values and a mode of behavior—an end as well as a process of obtaining that end which is always changing. Essays by J.G.A. Pocock, Jack Greene, Richard Vernier, Andrew Robertson, Joyce Appleby, Lawrence Goldman, and Rebecca Starr examine issues such as how British institutions and the common law were modified by unique colonial American experiences; how election rituals transformed the American political culture of deference into an expanded, abstract world of electoral opinion knit together by newspapers; how the South developed its own political culture by the end of the eighteenth century that persisted well beyond the Civil War; and more.

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