Affairs of Party : The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. / Jean H. Baker.
Baker, Jean H., author.
2022
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Title Affairs of Party : The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. / Jean H. Baker.
Author Baker, Jean H., author.
ISBN 9780823295135
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295135
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©1998
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (367 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823295135 doi
Summary Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democrats apart from members of other political organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism conveyed most strikingly through minstrelsy. Finally, Baker studies the neglected subject of partisan behavior, concentrating on the significance of parades, voting, and other rituals. In Affairs of Party Jean Baker brings together the three basic components of a political culture-education, thought, and behavior-and provides an understanding of the collective values of Northern Democrats and an insight into the elusive meaning of party experience. In her new preface, Professor Baker places her book in the context of both recent scholarship and recent political and cultural developments.
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Series The North's Civil War
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the 1998 Edition
Preface
Introduction
PART 1: LEARNING TO BE DEMOCRATS
1. Partisan Roots
2. Learning to Be Americans: Schooling and Political Culture
3. A Sense of Party: George Bancroft, Martin Van Buren, and Samuel Cox
PART II: THINKING AS DEMOCRATS
4. The Revival of Republicanism
5. Conservative Naturalism: The Racial Views of Stephen Douglas and the Delaware Bayards
6. The Negro Issue: Popular Culture, Racial Attitudes, and Democratic Policy
PART III: BEHAVING AS DEMOCRATS
7. The Meaning of Elections
8. Southern Connections and Party Nationalism
Conclusion: The Democracy as Imitator and Shaper
Bibliographic Notes
Index

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