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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463778803321

Autore

Brooke John L

Titolo

Columbia Rising [[electronic resource] ] : Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0094-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (646 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

974.739

Soggetti

Political rights - History - Columbia County - New York (State)

Citizenship - History - New York (State) - Columbia County

Civil society - History - New York (State) - Columbia County

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States Local History

Electronic books.

Columbia County (N.Y.) Politics and government 18th century

Columbia County (N.Y.) Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations and Tables; Prologue: Consent and Civil Society in the Age of Revolution; 1. The Revolutionary Crisis of Consent, 1775-1783; I. THE REVOLUTIONARY SETTLEMENT; 2. Conflict and Civil Establishments, 1783-1793; 3. Deliberation and Civil Procedure, 1787-1795; 4. Persuasion and Civil Boundaries, 1780s-1790s; II. EXTENDING THE SETTLEMENT; 5. Land Politics in Columbia, 1781-1804; 6. Boundaries, Sympathies, and the Settlement, 1785-1800; III. POLITICS AND EXCLUSIONS; 7. Party and Corruption: The Columbia Junto and the Rise of Martin Van Buren, 1799-1812

8. Female Interventions9. Race, Property, and Civil Exclusions, 1800-1821; 10. Jacksonian Columbia; Appendix: Dramatis Personae; Note on County Sources; List of Abbreviations and Short Titles; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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, it traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren - US president, and first theoretician of American party politics - threads the narrative, as his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the US party system.