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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Main Author: Smith, Kimberly K., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.