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Commons Democracy : Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States

Commoning customs and practices in the Revolutionary era offered non-elite actors a relationship to democratic power different from the representative democracy that would be institutionalized by the Framers in 1787. Commons Democracy uncovers the democratic spirit, ideals and practices created by o...

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Autor principal: Nelson, Dana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Commons Democracy: An Introduction; 1. Telling Stories: Vernacular versus Formal Democracy; 2. Between Savagery and Civilization: The Whiskey Rebellion and a Democratic Middle Way; 3. The Privatizing State: The Pioneers and the Closing of the Legal Commons; 4. Settler Self-Governance: Democratic Politics on the Frontier; 5. From Nothing to Start, into Being: The Anti-Rent Wars, the Indian Question, and the Triumph of Liberalism; Conclusion: "Those Wayward, Multitudinous People"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.