Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Mark G. Schmeller
€ 62.32
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Hardback. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 3 recorded music items. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent-and ambiguous-invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable idea, they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy. Tracing the notion of public opinion from its late eighteenth-century origins to the Gilded Age, Mark G. Schmeller's Invisible Sovereign argues that public opinion is ... Read more
In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent-and ambiguous-invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable idea, they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy. Tracing the notion of public opinion from its late eighteenth-century origins to the Gilded Age, Mark G. Schmeller's Invisible Sovereign argues that public opinion is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418704
SKU
V9781421418704
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Mark G. Schmeller
Mark G. Schmeller is an associate professor of history at Syracuse University.
Reviews for Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
This is an extremely important contribution... He has written a fine book. It will be an essential point of departure for future explorations of public opinion in the American past
Journal of the Civil War Era
Journal of the Civil War Era