Commons Democracy : : Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States / / Dana D. Nelson.
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 for dem...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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. Indian Question, and the Triumph of Liberalism
- Conclusion: "The Wayward, Multitudinous People"
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index