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The dominion of voice [electronic resource] : riot, reason, and romance in antebellum politics / Kimberly K. Smith.

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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 othe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Smith, Kimberly K., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©1999.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865.
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Northeastern States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Political culture > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Riots > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Politics and literature.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Northeastern States.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Mob action
  • Eighteenth-century riots
  • Rioting in the Antebellum era
  • Public debate
  • Neoclassical rhetoric and political oratory
  • Enlightenment rationalism and political debate
  • Narrative testimony
  • Storytelling
  • Sympathy.

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