Raising less corn and more hell? The Fear of Crowds, Popular Education and the Populist Movement in the 1890s
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2020.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This article examines 1890s Populism through the analysis of print culture, photographs and cartoons. It explores how representations of “the people” and “the mob” became disputed territory and how the people were reframed as unfit to exercise their sovereignty. Populist intellectuals sought to educate “mobs” and transform them into an enlightened “people” while popular mobilization produced a conservative reaction which reduced the people to a violent and ignorant crowd to be controlled and studied.
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This article examines 1890s Populism through the analysis of print culture, photographs and cartoons. It explores how representations of “the people” and “the mob” became disputed territory and how the people were reframed as unfit to exercise their sovereignty. Populist intellectuals sought to educate “mobs” and transform them into an enlightened “people” while popular mobilization produced a conservative reaction which reduced the people to a violent and ignorant crowd to be controlled and studied.
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