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The Making of Tocqueville's America : Law and Association in the Early United States /
Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | American Beginnings, 1500-1900
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. The Concept of Membership in America, 1783-1815
- Introduction
- One. Friendship, Formalities, and Membership in Post-R evolutionary America
- Two. Politics, Citizenship, and Association
- Three. A Common Law of Membership
- Part Two. Practices and Limits, 1800-1840
- Introduction
- Four. Everyday Constitutionalism in a Nation of Joiners
- Five. When Shareholders Were Members: The Business Corporation as Voluntary Association
- Six. Determining the Rights of Members
- Part three. Consequences: Civil Society in Antebellum America
- Introduction
- Seven. Labor Unions and an American Law of Membership
- Conclusion. The Concept of Membership in the Age of Reform
- Notes
- Index