Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)
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How has the idea of public opinion changed since the Revolutionary War--and how has it shaped the nation? In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent--and ambiguous--invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall deliberation, and marginalize...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1421418703
ISBN13:9781421418704
Release Date:February 2016
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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