The leader and the crowd : democracy in American public discourse, 1880-1941 /

"Daria Frezza covers six tumultuous decades of transatlantic history to examine how European theories of mass polities and crowd psychology influenced American social scientists' perception of crowds, mobs, democratic "people," and its leadership. In the last decades of the ninet...

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Hlavní autor: Frezza, Daria
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
italština
Vydáno: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2007.
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=310977
Obsah:
  • American democracy in the Gilded Age: the individual, the crowd, and the "people"
  • The language of race, the crowd, and the public in the progressive era
  • The mob stereotype
  • The paradox of a conformist democracy
  • Criticism of mass democracy after World War I
  • From the factory to the nation : leadership or domination
  • The international challenge
  • The defense of democracy.