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The Heart of the Commonwealth
John L. Brooke
其他書名
Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713-1861
出版Cambridge University Press, 2005-07-07
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN05216733999780521673396
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KWhb37JQ2p0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worcester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement after the Peace of Utrecht to the eve of the Civil War, as this country's people passed through the formative fires of both national and industrial revolution. Drawing upon a wide range of sources and methods, the book examines the unfolding relationships among ideological discourse, political action, and the institutions and structures of everyday life. Most broadly, the book argues that a broad transition from a republican - or Harringtonian - consensus to a liberal - or Lockean - consensus was conditioned by countervailing episodes of insurgency, running from the Land Bank and the Great Awakening in the 1740s to the rise of political antislavery a century later.