Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

by Mark G. Schmeller

Book Overview

How has the idea of public opinion changed since the Revolutionary War--and how has it shaped the nation?

In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent--and ambiguous--invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall deliberation, and marginalize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421418703
• ISBN13: 9781421418704
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"