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Dana D. Nelson - Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States - 9780823268382 - V9780823268382
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Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States

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Description for Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; JFC; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.

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 democracy—a representative republican government—Commons Democracy examines the power of the democratic spirit, the ideals and practices of everyday people in the early nation. As Dana D. Nelson reveals in this illuminating work, the sensibility of participatory democratic activity fueled the involvement of ordinary folk in resistance, revolution, state constitution-making, and early national civic ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823268382
SKU
V9780823268382
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About Dana D. Nelson
Dana D. Nelson is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People and National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men.

Reviews for Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
"Nelson's Commons Democracy deserves the attention of a wide range of early republic scholars, especially those interested in literature, democracy, and the political practices of ordinary Americans. This vigorously argued book offers a coherent paradigm for understanding an important part of the early American democratic tradition. The field would do well to run with Nelson's framework and explore the full ... Read more

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