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03793aam a2200445 i 4500 001 2E80FD1AF05511E7964A246697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180103010226 008 151021s2016 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015014321 020 $a 1421418703 020 $a 9781421418704 035 $a (OCoLC)926312560 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d XFF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a E302.1 $b .S36 2016 082 00 $a 303.3/80973 $2 23 100 1 $a Schmeller, Mark G., $d 1967- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015062361 245 10 $a Invisible sovereign : $b imagining public opinion from the revolution to reconstruction / $c Mark G. Schmeller. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a x, 239 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New studies in American intellectual and cultural history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion, ' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate the nature of public opinion between independence and the aftermath of Civil War and also examine what leading Americans thought about it. Where could one detect it? How might attitudes toward it, in the abstract and concrete, have changed in this eventful period? 'As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable concept, ' Schmeller explains, 'they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy.' He argues that what began life as something close to exceptionally American republican thought (and in a sense unchanging) became something far more malleable and subject to manipulation by means of stump-speech rhetoric, partisan newspapers, trumpeting of the importance of the self in the nineteenth century, etc. Crossing into so many discrete fields of historical research, this project has much potential as a synthesizing meta-narrative"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination -- The moral economy of opinion -- The political economy of opinion -- Partisan manufactories of public sentiment -- The importance of having opinion -- The fatal force of public opinion -- Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises -- Conclusion : corn-pone opinion -- Essay on sources. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1775-1783. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140413 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1865. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140416 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1865-1877. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140443 650 0 $a Public opinion $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Public opinion $z United States $x History $y 19th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107072 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Public opinion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01082785 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1700 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 830 0 $a New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84711696 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217022455.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E80FD1AF05511E7964A246697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search