When Canvassers Became Activists: Antislavery Petitioning and the Political Mobilization of American Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL CARPENTER ◽  
COLIN D. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
American Women ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Per Capita

Examining an original dataset of more than 8,500 antislavery petitions sent to Congress (1833–1845), we argue that American women's petition canvassing conferred skills and contacts that empowered their later activism. We find that women canvassers gathered 50% or more signatures (absolute and per capita) than men while circulating the same petition requests in the same locales. Supplementary evidence (mainly qualitative) points to women's persuasive capacity and network building as the most plausible mechanisms for this increased efficacy. We then present evidence that leaders in the women's rights and reform campaigns of the nineteenth century were previously active in antislavery canvassing. Pivotal signers of the Seneca Falls Declaration were antislavery petition canvassers, and in an independent sample of post–Civil War activists, women were four times more likely than men to have served as identifiable antislavery canvassers. For American women, petition canvassing—with its patterns of persuasion and networking—shaped legacies in political argument, network formation, and organizing.

scholarly journals Writing their Own Way: American Women, Palestine’s Bedouins and Issues of Safety in the Nineteenth Century

1970 ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Jim Ross-Nazzal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women Travelers ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Travel Accounts

Throughout the nineteenth century, more and more Americans traveled abroad, especially after the American Civil War (1861-1865). Many, upon their return home, published their travel accounts. I have collected and analysed the published accounts of fifty American women. What follows is an investigation into how American women travelers who ventured to Palestine perceived and interacted with Palestine’s Bedouin populations by examining their published travel accounts.

Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Wright ◽  
Howard Kunreuther
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War ◽  
World Cotton ◽  
The South ◽  
Satisfactory Explanation ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Per Capita

Why Did “Uncle Remus” exhort the post-bellum South to reduce its cotton-growing in favor of corn? His complaint was prompted in the immediate sense by the low cotton prices of the early 1890's, but such comments reflected a continuing discontent over the region's abandonment of self-sufficiency in foods after the Civil War. The ratio of cotton output to com was probably at an antebellum peak in 1860, but this ratio had been easily exceeded by 1880, as Table 1 indicates. In the leading cotton states, per capita corn production and the per capita stock of hogs were only about half of what they had been twenty years earlier. Coinciding as it did with a major era of stagnation in world cotton demand, this shift into cotton is of great importance for the subsequent economic development of the South. Despite its size and significance, the shift lacks a satisfactory explanation in the historical literature.

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century.

1985 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 625
Author(s):  
Jean E. Friedman ◽  
Catherine Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Women

A Quiet Revolution in State Lobbying: Government Growth and Interest Populations

2020 ◽  
pp. 106591292097549
Author(s):  
James M. Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Government Growth ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
The 1960S

What explains contemporary numbers of interest groups in America? To answer this question and help address conflicting narratives in research, I examine the rise of interest groups in the states. Assembling an original dataset based on archival and secondary sources, I find that relatively few groups lobbied legislators prior to the 1960s or 1970s. During those decades, numbers of interest groups began to grow rapidly. I find that increases in lawmaking activities present inconsistent effects on the political mobilization of groups but increases in spending are strongly correlated with mobilization. In additional tests, I find that the effects of spending on group numbers vary by state and are not discernible in most states. In general, a historic transformation of state governments helps to account for the growth of state lobbying. Interest groups have remained active in state capitols ever since.

scholarly journals ARGENTINE POLITICAL VIOLENCE DURING STATE FORMATION (1862-1880) AN INTERPRETATIVE ESSAY

Almanack ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 121-150
Author(s):  
Laura Cucchi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Many

Abstract Traditionally, Argentine historiography has considered the many uprisings that took place in Argentina during the second half of the nineteenth century to be disruptive actions that hampered the institutionalization of the political system outlined in the Constitution. Historians understood these forms of political mobilization as a part of minor power struggles between elites who, through their behavior, perpetuated political instability and delayed state consolidation. Recent empirical, local studies offer a different view of political violence in Argentina during state formation. This article reviews those studies and proposes a new global interpretation of the concept and practice of violence for the period between national unification (1862) and the consolidation of the state (1880).

“You Have Votes and Power”: Women's Political Engagement with the Irish Question in Britain, 1919–23

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo Moulton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Irish Question

AbstractThe Anglo-Irish War of 1919–21 spurred organized political activity among women in Britain, including former suffragists who campaigned against coercion in Ireland and members of the Irish minority in Britain who supported more radical republican efforts to achieve Irish independence. Their efforts are particularly significant because they occurred immediately after the granting of partial suffrage to women in 1918. This article argues that the advent of female suffrage changed the landscape of women's political mobilization in distinct ways that were made visible by advocacy on Ireland, including the regendering of the discourse of citizenship and the creation of new opportunities beyond the vote for women to exercise political power. At the same time, the use of women's auxiliary organizations and special meetings and the strategic blurring of the public and private spheres through the political use of domestic spaces all indicate the strength of continuities with nineteenth-century antecedents. The article further situates women's political advocacy on Ireland in an imperial and transnational context, arguing that it was part of the process of reconceptualizing Britain's postwar global role whether through outright anti-imperialism, in the case of Irish republicans, or through humanitarianism and the new internationalism, in the case of most former suffragists. Finally, the article examines the failure of these two groups of women to forge alliances with each other, underscoring the ways in which both class and nationality challenged a notional common interest based on sex.

The Civil War and Reconstruction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Crowe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Federal Judiciary ◽  
Reconstruction Era

This chapter focuses on the empowerment of the federal judiciary from the Compromise of 1850 (admitting California into the Union as a free state and unofficially signifying the beginning of the political crisis leading to the Civil War) to the Compromise of 1877 (settling the disputed 1876 presidential election between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes and representing the formal end of Reconstruction). The chapter asks why judicial institution building was pursued, how it was accomplished, and what it achieved within the context of mid-nineteenth century American politics. It examines the role of Republicans in Civil War and Reconstruction era institution building and how it resulted in a significant expansion of federal judicial power. It also considers the four stages in which the substantial empowerment of the judiciary occurred during the period, including the consolidation of a Republican-friendly Supreme Court through ameliorative reforms aimed at specific problems of judicial performance.

Huarpe Archives in the Argentine Desert: Indigenous Claims and State Construction in Nineteenth-Century Mendoza

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Escolar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
State Construction ◽  
Spanish Colonies

Abstract The narrative of indigenous extinction and the construction of a “white” Argentina entailed an ethnogeographic imaginary by which the territories of the former Spanish colonies were inhabited since the nineteenth century by gauchos or eventually peasants. The population classified as indigenous, in this view, was projected outside the central areas controlled by the nation-state, beyond the frontiers of the Pampas, Patagonia, and the Chaco. Historical writing accepted and contributed to the formation of this image by characterizing the political mobilization of gauchos or peasants (especially in their bellicosity as montoneras — irregular militia units) as a natural reflection of the projects of elites, factions, patrons, or parties. That historiography dismissed as irrelevant any demands stemming from the gauchos and peasantry themselves, such as those based on the long historical experience of indigenous peoples. Based on documents preserved by inhabitants of the travesía, or the desert, of Guanacache, in the central Cuyo region, the descendants of the Huarpe Indians who were considered extinct in the seventeenth century, this analysis stresses the continuity of indigenous claims and the political strategies of the communities of the countryside during the nineteenth century. While recognizing that other factors were involved in political mobilization, this analysis shows the primary importance of indigenous claims in an area of traditional montonero rebellion and civil conflict, and the active participation of the region in the construction of the state beginning in the 1820s. Indigenous leaders who also served as government officials pressed for institutionalized recognition of indigenous rights. That pressure eventually led to the acceptance of their claims and the maintenance of relative political autonomy until the 1870s.

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

1985 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Armitage ◽  
Catherine Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Women

The Spanish Reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (1913–1936)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Idoia Murga Castro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
Rite Of Spring ◽  
Le Sacre Du Printemps ◽  
Cultural Expansion

Centenary celebrations are being held between 2016 and 2018 to mark the first consecutive tours of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Spain. This study analyses the Spanish reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913), one of its most avant-garde pieces. Although the original work was never performed in Spain as a complete ballet, its influence was felt deeply in the work of certain Spanish choreographers, composers, painters and intellectuals during the so-called Silver Age, the period of modernisation and cultural expansion which extended from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

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