Author: William Sullivan
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: William SULLIVAN (of Boston.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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ISBN: 9780461663068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Alexander Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Author: Samuel G. Drake
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Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Samuel WORCESTER (D.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Johann N. Neem
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The United States is a nation of joiners. Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, focusing on the grassroots actions of ordinary people, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts. Neem explores the multiple conflicts that produced a vibrant pluralistic civil society following the American Revolution. The result was an astounding release of civic energy as ordinary people, long denied a voice in public debates, organized to advocate temperance, to protect the Sabbath, and to abolish slavery; elite Americans formed private institutions to promote education and their stewardship of culture and knowledge. But skeptics remained. Followers of Jefferson and Jackson worried that the new civil society would allow the organized few to trump the will of the unorganized majority. When Tocqueville returned to France, the relationship between American democracy and its new civil society was far from settled. The story Neem tells is more pertinent than ever—for Americans concerned about their own civil society, and for those seeking to build civil societies in emerging democracies around the world.