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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823268405
  • 0823268403
  • 0823268411
  • 9780823268412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Commons Democracy : Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States.DDC classification:
  • 306.2097309033 23
LOC classification:
  • E310 .N457 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 ordinary folk in the early nation.
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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.

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 ordinary folk in the early nation.

In English.

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