A challenge to the story of popular politics

Journal of American History

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 900-903

  Basch, Norma ^a  

^a Ringers University   (United States)

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EID: 33750136585     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2953086     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Robert H. Wiebe, Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy (Chicago, 1995), 15.
2. The story is told with far greater subtlety by Michael McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (New York, 1986).
3. See also Joel Silbey, The American Political Nation. 1838-1893 (Stanford, 1991).
4. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, "Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy," Journal of American History, 84 (Sept. 1997), 857.
5. McGerr, Decline of Popular Politics, 31,401;
6. Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Ithaca, 1983), 23;
7. William E. Gienapp, " 'Politics Seem to Enter Everything1: Political Culture in the North, 1840-1860," in Essays on American Antebellum Politics: The American North, ed. Steven E. Maizlish and John J. Kushma (College Station, 1982), 35, 43;
8. William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party: 18)2-1856 (New York, 1987), 9.
9. Altschuler and Blumin, "Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America," 877.
10. Dorothy Ross, "Grand Narrative in American Historical Writing: From Romance to Uncertainty," American Historical Review, 100 (June 1995), 652;
11. Altschuler and Blumin, "Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America," 885.