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The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era
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By Mark E. Neely, Jr.
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(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 159. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. $29.95.)
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| Mark Neely's twelfth book proposes to locate the boundaries between political and private life during the Civil War era. Originally presented as a series of lectures at Pennsylvania State University in 2002, The Boundaries of American Political Culture responded to arguments by social historians that politics played only a marginal role in the daily lives of nineteenth-century Americans. The author finds that during the Civil War era, engagement between political and private life was without parallel. |
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