Columbia rising : civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson /

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Between the end of the Revolution and the Age of Jackson, thousands of localities within the young American nation struggled to extend the political and social rights embedded in Enlightenment ideals. Would the governed freely offer their consent? Would all citizens enjoy equal access to civil insti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooke, John L.
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Temas:
Van Buren, Martin, > 1782-1862 > Political and social views.
Van Buren, Martin, > 1782-1862
1700-1899
Political rights > New York (State) > Columbia County > History.
Citizenship > New York (State) > Columbia County > History.
Civil society > New York (State) > Columbia County > History.
Droits politiques > New York (État) > Columbia > Histoire.
Société civile > New York (État) > Columbia > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Citizenship
Civil society
Political and social views
Political rights
Politics and government
Columbia County (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 18th century.
Columbia County (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
New York (State) > Columbia County
History
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Sumario:Between the end of the Revolution and the Age of Jackson, thousands of localities within the young American nation struggled to extend the political and social rights embedded in Enlightenment ideals. Would the governed freely offer their consent? Would all citizens enjoy equal access to civil institutions?
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores this struggle and its powerful contradictions as it unfolded in one country named in honor of the mythic figure that embodied the promise of the young republic. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen.
The story of Martin Van Buren--kingpin of New York's Jacksonian "Regency," president of the United States, and first theoretician of American party politics--threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system
Brooke masterfully imbues local history with national significance, and his analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers an ideal window on a local struggle that mirroted the nationwide effort to define American citizenship. --Book Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 629 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469600949
1469600943

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