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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dana D. NelsonPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780823268399ISBN 10: 082326839 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 15 December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Commons Democracy: An Introduction One. Telling Stories: Vernacular versus Formal Democracy Two. Between Savagery and Civilization: The Whiskey Rebellion and a Democratic Middle Way Three. The Privatizing State: The Pioneers and the Closing of the Legal Commons Four. Settler Self-Governance: Democratic Politics on the Frontier Five. From Nothing to Start, Into Being: The Anti-Rent Wars, the Indian Question, and the Triumph of Liberalism Conclusion: ""The Wayward Multitudinous People"ReviewsCommons Democracy is an exhilarating and compelling account of early U.S. forms of participatory democracy that have largely disappeared from critical view behind the shadow of the dominant account of the Founders' creation of formal electoral democracy. --Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northwestern University Nelson focuses in this book on a dynamic aspect of U.S. history, one that is already quite relevant in our own time and that promises to be increasingly so in the future. --John Ernest, University of Delaware Commons Democracy is an exhilarating and compelling account of early U.S. forms of participatory democracy that have largely disappeared from critical view behind the shadow of the dominant account of the Founders' creation of formal electoral democracy. --Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northwestern University Nelson focuses in this book on a dynamic aspect of U.S. history, one that is already quite relevant in our own time and that promises to be increasingly so in the future. --John Ernest, University of Delaware An important contribution, at a vital moment, to renewing appreciation of democracy as the awkward practice of sharing power to shape common existence. --Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Commons Democracy is an exhilarating and compelling account of early U.S. forms of participatory democracy that have largely disappeared from critical view behind the shadow of the dominant account of the Founders' creation of formal electoral democracy. -- -Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Northeastern University An important contribution, at a vital moment, to renewing appreciation of democracy as the awkward practice of sharing power to shape common existence. -- -Wendy Brown University of California, Berkeley Nelson focuses in this book on a dynamic aspect of U.S. history, one that is already quite relevant in our own time and that promises to be increasingly so in the future. -- -John Ernest University of Delaware Author InformationDana 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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