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The rise and fall of the white republic : class politics and mass culture in nineteenth-century America

Title: The rise and fall of the white republic : class politics and mass culture in nineteenth-century America / Alexander Saxton.
Author: Saxton, Alexander.
Publication: London ; New York : Verso, 1990.

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Description

x, 397 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Haymarket series

Uniform Title

Haymarket series

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / David Roediger -- Introduction: Historical Explanations of Racial Inequality -- National Republican Thesis, Jacksonian Antithesis -- National Republicans -- Whigs -- Mass Media, Mass Mediators -- The Jacksonian Press -- Theater -- The Democracy -- Transitions -- Blackface Minstrelsy -- Constructing a Western Hero -- George Wilkes: Mutations of Artisan Radicalism -- Republican Innovators -- Republican Synthesis -- Republicans -- Organizing the West -- Class Organization in a Racially Segmented Labor Force -- Nationalizing the Western Hero -- In Search of a New Antithesis.

ISBN

0860919862
9780860919865
086091271X
9780860912712

LCCN

90041069

OCLC

ocm21949057
21949057
SCSB-1906640

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library