The big vote [electronic resource] : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / Liette Gidlow.
Series: Reconfiguring American political historyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2004.Edition: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edDescription: xi, 260 p., [8] p. of plates ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 324.973/0915 22
- JK1764 .G53 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : making dominance -- "Civic slackers" and "poll dodgers" : nonvoting and the construction of discursive dominance -- "A whole fleet of campaigns" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns in overview -- "Vote as you please, but vote!" : the leadership of the get-out-the-vote campaigns -- "Good for at least 100 votes" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns at the local level -- The expert citizen : civic education and the remaking of civic hierarchies -- The methods of Wrigley and Barnum : the get-out-the-vote campaigns and the commodification of political culture -- Conclusion : the new regime.
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