On the stump : campaign oratory and democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia / Sean Scalmer.

Author: Scalmer, Sean, author.

ImprintPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.

Descriptionxvi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction: George Caleb Bingham and the problem of discovery -- Frontier stumping: Davy Crockett and Henry Clay as orators and symbols -- Partisan oratory: an American habit -- From America to the British world: stumping translated and reimagined -- Rousing the people: the stumping tour in colonial Australia -- To Midlothian and beyond: Gladstonian stumping, performed and remembered -- Conclusion: politics, the modern way.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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