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Octavo; G+/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, tan with brown print; DJ has light edgewear, sunned spine, light smudging to rear top edge, light shelfwear; Boards in yellow cloth with blue print, light wear to spine caps, slight blemish on spine; Text block clean and tight but for vendor stamp on title page; 368 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1323189. FP New Rockville Stock. Seller Inventory # 1323189
Bibliographic Details
Title: AFFAIRS OF PARTY : THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF ...
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
About this title
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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