The boundaries of American political culture in the Civil War era

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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, the author of this book seeks to gauge the importance of politics for ordinary people in the Civil War era.

subjects: Political culture,  Minstrel shows,  History,  Social classes,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Political clubs,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  Politics and government,  Material culture,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Popular Culture,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  Social conditions,  Civil War Period (1850-1877),  Political participation,  Social classes, united states,  United states, social conditions, to 1865,  United states, politics and government, 19th century,  United states, history, 19th century,  United states, politics and government, 1815-1861,  United states, politics and government, 1861-1865,  United states, social conditions

Places: United States

Times: 1861-1865,  1845-1861,  1841-1845,  19th century,  To 1865