Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. by Baker, Jean H.

Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823218653)

Author: Jean H. Baker
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Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. by Baker, Jean H.

Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

$39.00
Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. by Baker, Jean H.

Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

$39.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jean H. Baker
ISBN-10: 0823218651
ISBN-13: 9780823218653
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.01w x 0.78d

About the Author
Jean H. Baker is a Professor of History at Goucher College. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982. In 1979 she was an editor for Maryland Historical Magazine. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Conference of Women Historians. Her publications include The Civil War and Reconstruction, The Politics of Continuity, and Ambivalent Americans. She has also written several stories on suffragists including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Frances Willard.

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