Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742520765 ISBN 13: 9780742520769

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

In this book seven distinguished historians explain how a national political culture developed in America. A political culture is both the collectivity of a community's values and a mode of behavior-an end as well as a process of obtaining that end which is always changing. Essays by J.G.A. Pocock, Jack Greene, Richard Vernier, Andrew Robertson, Joyce Appleby, Lawrence Goldman, and Rebecca Starr examine issues such as how British institutions and the common law were modified by unique colonial American experiences; how election rituals transformed the American political culture of deference into an expanded, abstract world of electoral opinion knit together by newspapers; how the South developed its own political culture by the end of the eighteenth century that persisted well beyond the Civil War; and more.

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Review:

Articulating America is an appropriate tribute to the long career of a very influential and extremely erudite scholar.--Keith Mason, University of Liverpool "History "

It is to the great credit of Rebecca Starr, the editor, and Jack Pole, in whose honour this particular collection has been compiled, that what we have here is a tightly organized, coherent work which both reflects on and itself reflects the high standards of scholarship that Pole himself exhibits and encourages.--Nations and Nationalism

About the Author:

Rebecca Starr is senior lecturer at Cheltenham and Gloucester College in the United Kingdom. She is the author of A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0742520765
• ISBN 13: 9780742520769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Starr Rebecca