Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870

by Daniel Carpenter

Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Award
Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize
Winner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book Award

This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democracy.

Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247493
• ISBN13: 9780674247499
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.7" x 9.4"