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Democracy by petition : popular politics in transformation, 1790-1870 /
This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democracy. Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Dani...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Signature moments, 1846-1849
- Eruptions and democracies
- Stirrings: Petitions, prayers, and their venues
- Petitioning in the Settler Republic: space, capital, soldiers
- First nations, first wave petitioners
- Slavery, skin, and black strategy
- Awakenings: Patriotes and rebels: petitioning and parliamentary sovereignty in French Canada
- Producers, electors, city democrats
- The coalescence of opposition: from the Bank War to Canadian reform
- Abolition and the transformation of U.S. politics
- Democracies and closures: Women contesting collectively: work, war, Iglesia, and the ballot
- The eclipse of lordship: petitioning and land tenure in the United States and Canada
- Native continuance, native governance: The closure of petition democracy in the U.S. South, 1839-1860
- Freedom and the petitioner's democracy
- Afterword: Agendas, organization, and the democracy of petitions.