This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot [1 ed.] 1616898879, 9781616898878

This Is What Democracy Looked Like, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but of

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This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot [1 ed.]
 1616898879, 9781616898878

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Dedication
Copyright
Contents
The Physical Dimension of Democracy
The Most Fugitive Ephemera
Corn and Beans
Suffrage is Relative
Political Party Party
Old Sacks and Bluegrass
Dodging, Pasting, and Tapeworms
Purity of The Box
Converting Swine into Pork
Kangaroo Voting
Clean White Paper
A Sword too Clumsy to Wield
Perfect Machines
A Superabundant Force
Plates
New Anxieties and Old Friends
Notes
Image Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments

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