The dominion of voice
riot, reason, and romance in antebellum politics
by Kimberly K. Smith
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.
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The dominion of voice: riot, reason, and romance in antebellum politics
1999, University Press of Kansas
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The dominion of voice: riot, reason and romance in antebellum American political thought
1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.
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