Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the revolution to reconstruction / Mark G. Schmeller.

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"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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Main Author: Schmeller, Mark G., 1967- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877.
Public opinion > United States > History > 18th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and government.
Public opinion.
United States.
1700 - 1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.