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Columbia Rising
John L. Brooke
其他書名
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
出版UNC Press Books, 2013-08-01
主題History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties
ISBN080783887X9780807838877
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gS_qCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize–winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke’s analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.