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Author(s): Richard Franklin Bensel
ISBN(s): 9780521831017, 0511216076
Edition: 1st edition,
File Details: PDF, 1.68 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  052153786X

ISBN 13:  978-0521537865

Author:  Richard Franklin Bensel

Unlike modern elections, the American polling place of the mid-nineteenth century was thoroughly endowed with symbolic meaning for individuals who otherwise would not have had the least interest in politics. This made the polls exciting and encouraged men to vote at far higher rates than they do today. Men who approached a polling place were met by agents of the major political parties. They treated the voters with whiskey, gave them petty bribes, and urged that they should be loyal to their ethnic and religious communities. As reported in the eyewitness accounts of ordinary voters, the polls were almost always crowded, noisy, and often, violent.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Introduction

  2. Structure and Practice of Elections

  3. Social Construction of Identity in Eastern Rural Communities

  4. EthnoCultural Stereotypes and Voting in Large Cities

  5. Frontier Democracy

  6. Loyalty Oaths, Troops and Elections during the Civil War

  7. Conclusion

  8. Index

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