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The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (Paperback)
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The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (Paperback)
Series: Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
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Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in
politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing
that social historians have gone too far in concluding that
Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political
historians have gone too far in asserting that politics informed
all of Americans' lives, Mark Neely seeks to gauge the importance
of politics for ordinary people in the Civil War era. Looking
beyond the usual markers of political activity, Neely sifts through
the political bric-a-brac of the era--lithographs and engravings of
political heroes, campaign buttons, songsters filled with political
lyrics, photo albums, newspapers, and political cartoons. In each
of four chapters, he examines a different sphere--the home, the
workplace, the gentlemen's Union League Club, and the minstrel
stage--where political engagement was expressed in material
culture. Neely acknowledges that there were boundaries to political
life, however. But as his investigation shows, political expression
permeated the public and private realms of Civil War America.
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