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Columbia Rising : Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

By John L. Brooke

Book information

Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Year
2010
ISBN
9781469600949, 9781469609737
LCC
F127.C8B76 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9497033 bytes)
Series
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
646\646
Time added
2023-08-15 05:32:44
Columbia County (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1

Description

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.

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