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Parades and the Politics of the Street : Festive Culture in the Early American Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200478
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Parades and the Politics of the StreetDDC classification:
  • 973.4
LOC classification:
  • E310 -- .N49 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Significance of Popular Political Culture -- 1. Resistance, Revolution, and Nationhood: The Origins of a National Popular Political Culture -- 2. The Partisan Politics of Popular Leadership -- 3. The Popular Politics of Independence Day -- 4. Celebrating the French Revolution -- 5. Songs, Signs, and Symbols: The Everyday Discourse of Popular Politics -- 6. Conclusion: The Regularization of Popular Political Culture -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: "The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics. Simon Newman's book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped."--Linda K. Kerber, author of Women of the Republic.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: The Significance of Popular Political Culture -- 1. Resistance, Revolution, and Nationhood: The Origins of a National Popular Political Culture -- 2. The Partisan Politics of Popular Leadership -- 3. The Popular Politics of Independence Day -- 4. Celebrating the French Revolution -- 5. Songs, Signs, and Symbols: The Everyday Discourse of Popular Politics -- 6. Conclusion: The Regularization of Popular Political Culture -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

"The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics. Simon Newman's book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped."--Linda K. Kerber, author of Women of the Republic.

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