The dominion of voice : riot, reason, and romance in antebellum politics / Kimberly K. Smith.
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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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
℗♭1999.
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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.