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Commons democracy : reading the politics of participation in the early United States /

"Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders' high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Dana D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Telling stories: vernacular versus formal democracy
  • Between savagery and civilization: the Whiskey Rebellion and a democratic middle way
  • The privatizing state: the pioneers and the closing of the legal commons
  • Settler self-governance: democratic politics on the frontier
  • From nothing to start, into being: the anti-rent wars, the Indian question, and the triumph of liberalism
  • Conclusion: "The wayward, multitudinous people."