Articulating America - Fashioning a National Political Culture

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.

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).

Summary

In this collection of essays, 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 behaviour - an end as well as a process of obtaining that end, which is always changing.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rebecca Starr (Editor), Starr Rebecca (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2001
• EAN: 9780742520769
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2076-9
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social groups, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Social groups, communities and identities