Political Culture And Secession In Mississippi Hardcover Revised Edition

Christopher J. Olsen

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi explores the connections between gender, honour, and electoral politics, and argues that secession resulted from the demands and implications of masculinity within the state's antiparty political culture. Using evidence from local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records, the work sketches a new picture of the varied and colourful world of local politics. It also advances a model of political culture that draws from several disciplines, mixing social science and traditional political history with anthropology and gender and ritual studies.

0195131479

9780195131475

English

Oxford University Press

28-Jun-14

280

Revised Edition