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Town Meeting: Practicing Democracy in Rural New England
Donald L. Robinson
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Description for Town Meeting: Practicing Democracy in Rural New England
Paperback. Explores the history and practice of an uncommon but enduring form of American self-government Num Pages: 344 pages, 24 illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln described government by the people as the great task remaining before us. Many citizens of modern America, frustrated and disheartened, are tempted to despair of realizing that ideal. Yet, it is a project still alive in parts of New England. This book traces the origins of town-meeting democracy in Ashfield, a community of just under 2,000 people in the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Donald Robinson begins by recounting several crises at the town's founding in the eighteenth century that helped to shape its character. He shows how the town has changed since then ... Read more
At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln described government by the people as the great task remaining before us. Many citizens of modern America, frustrated and disheartened, are tempted to despair of realizing that ideal. Yet, it is a project still alive in parts of New England. This book traces the origins of town-meeting democracy in Ashfield, a community of just under 2,000 people in the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Donald Robinson begins by recounting several crises at the town's founding in the eighteenth century that helped to shape its character. He shows how the town has changed since then ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498556
SKU
V9781558498556
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