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- catalog abstract "As one of dozens of counties in the United States named for the nation's first president, Washington County, Oregon, is hardly unique. But as one of the few counties in the 1850s to practice viva voce voting - in which individual ballots are announced publicly rather than recorded in secret - it produced records that offer historians a rare opportunity to explore political, social, and cultural trends in American history in the crucial years that preceded the Civil War. Washington County, a fairly typical laboratory of democracy, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America - rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestants and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. Correlating hundreds of individual voting records and voluminous social, cultural, and economic data, Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats take full advantage of the evidence and supply us with an unprecedented study of how people in the 1850s developed political identities and made political choices. In this long-awaited book, Bourke and DeBats show in compelling richness of detail how these decisions more often resulted from private considerations than from the highly publicized appeals of parties and their candidates. Washington County offers us a wonderful example of how the reconfiguring of political and social history can lead to new levels of understanding.".
- catalog contributor b7481012.
- catalog contributor b7481013.
- catalog coverage "Washington County (Or.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Washington County (Or.) Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Washington County (Or.) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "1. The Death of Andrew Jackson Masters -- pt. I. Culture and Institutions. 2. The People of Washington County, 1830-1860. 3. Making a Living. 4. Governing the County. 5. Population, Culture, and Ideology -- pt. II. Politics and Society. 6. Visible Partisans and Political Language. 7. The Electorate: An Analysis of Participation and Partisanship. 8. The Voters: A Social Profile -- pt. III. Neighborhoods. 9. From County to Neighborhood: The Hinterland. 10. From County to Neighborhood: A Town and a Village, Forest Grove and Hillsboro.".
- catalog description "As one of dozens of counties in the United States named for the nation's first president, Washington County, Oregon, is hardly unique. But as one of the few counties in the 1850s to practice viva voce voting - in which individual ballots are announced publicly rather than recorded in secret - it produced records that offer historians a rare opportunity to explore political, social, and cultural trends in American history in the crucial years that preceded the Civil War.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-396) and index.".
- catalog description "Washington County, a fairly typical laboratory of democracy, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America - rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestants and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. Correlating hundreds of individual voting records and voluminous social, cultural, and economic data, Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats take full advantage of the evidence and supply us with an unprecedented study of how people in the 1850s developed political identities and made political choices. In this long-awaited book, Bourke and DeBats show in compelling richness of detail how these decisions more often resulted from private considerations than from the highly publicized appeals of parties and their candidates. Washington County offers us a wonderful example of how the reconfiguring of political and social history can lead to new levels of understanding.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 407 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Washington County.".
- catalog identifier "0801849500 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Washington County.".
- catalog isPartOf "Reconfiguring American political history".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Washington County.".
- catalog spatial "Oregon Washington County".
- catalog spatial "Washington County (Or.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Washington County (Or.) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Washington County (Or.) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "979.5/4303 20".
- catalog subject "Elections Oregon Washington County History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "JS451.O79 W373 1995".
- catalog subject "Voting Oregon Washington County History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Washington County (Or.) Politics and government.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Death of Andrew Jackson Masters -- pt. I. Culture and Institutions. 2. The People of Washington County, 1830-1860. 3. Making a Living. 4. Governing the County. 5. Population, Culture, and Ideology -- pt. II. Politics and Society. 6. Visible Partisans and Political Language. 7. The Electorate: An Analysis of Participation and Partisanship. 8. The Voters: A Social Profile -- pt. III. Neighborhoods. 9. From County to Neighborhood: The Hinterland. 10. From County to Neighborhood: A Town and a Village, Forest Grove and Hillsboro.".
- catalog title "Washington County : politics and community in antebellum America / Paul Bourke, Donald DeBats.".
- catalog type "text".