The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America
Published on 17. February 1991
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-86091-271-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level-from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels-as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86091-271-2 (9780860912712)
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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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Alexander Saxton, a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, is also the author of The Indispenasble Enemy: Labor and Anti-Chinese Movement in California as well as several novels. He spent nearly twenty years as a merchant seaman and carpenter before launching a distinguished academic career.