The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era

by Mark E. Neely Jr.

Book Overview

Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting that politics informed all of Americans' lives, Mark Neely seeks to gauge the importance of politics for ordinary people in the Civil War era.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807829862
• ISBN13: 9780807829868
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"