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The Perils of Pluralism

Blocker, Jack S

Canadian review of American studies, 1973-10, Vol.4 (2), p.201-205 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The Perils of Pluralism
Autor: Blocker, Jack S
Assuntos: Kleppner, Jensen, Paul., Richard J., -- author
É parte de: Canadian review of American studies, 1973-10, Vol.4 (2), p.201-205
Descrição: Paul Kleppner, The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850-1900. New York: The Free Press, 1970. x + 402 pp., tables, appendixes, notes, bibl., index, $9.00. Richard Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. xvii + 357 pp., tables, appendix, notes, guide to sources, index, $12.50. Studies of political behaviour in the late nineteenth century have customarily suffered from three defects: institutionalism, elitism, and partisanship. By focusing on the activities of leaders in election cam- paigns and governmental affairs, historians have neglected to explore the behaviour of the rank and file or to elucidate connections between political and social conflict. The inability to resist the compulsions of party con- flict has left us with a seemingly endless spiral of revisionist polemics. The appearance of these two books indicates that the quantitative his- torians are now having their day. Have they escaped the traps which ensnared their presumably less objective predecessors? To what extent do they revise older interpretations?
Editor: Downsview, Ont: University of Toronto Press
Idioma: Inglês

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