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The rise and fall of the white republic : class politics and mass culture in nineteenth-century America

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The rise and fall of the white republic : class politics and mass culture in nineteenth-century America / Alexander Saxton.

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Status Request for on-site use Request scan Not available - Please for assistance.	FormatBook/Text	AccessUse in library	Call numberE184.A1 S28 1990	Item locationOff-site

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Foreword / David Roediger -- Introduction: Historical Explanations of Racial Inequality -- National Republican Thesis, Jacksonian Antithesis -- National Republicans -- Whigs -- Mass Media, Mass Mediators -- The Jacksonian Press -- Theater -- The Democracy -- Transitions -- Blackface Minstrelsy -- Constructing a Western Hero -- George Wilkes: Mutations of Artisan Radicalism -- Republican Innovators -- Republican Synthesis -- Republicans -- Organizing the West -- Class Organization in a Racially Segmented Labor Force -- Nationalizing the Western Hero -- In Search of a New Antithesis.

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