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Author Argersinger, Peter H.

Title Representation and inequality in late nineteenth-century America [electronic resource] : the politics of apportionment / Peter H. Argersinger.

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description x, 340 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. "Injustices and inequities": the politics of apportionment, 1870-1889; 2. "One irrevocable duty": democrats and reapportionment, 1889-1893; 3. "The time has come to make a precedent": Wisconsin, 1891-1892; 4. "Fought out in the courts": Michigan, 1891-1892; 5. "Partisanship has run riot": Indiana, 1892-1894; 6. "An ineradicable vice": Wisconsin, 1893-1896; 7. "The consequences of their own folly": Indiana, 1894-1898; 8. "A state of uncertainty": Illinois, 1893-1898; 9. "Our system of representative government": from chaos to control.
Summary "This book examines fierce conflicts over apportionment and gerrymandering in the late nineteenth-century Midwest"-- Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Congress. House -- Election districts -- History -- 19th century.
Apportionment (Election law) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Election districts -- United States.
Representative government and representation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781107023000
9781139782753 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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