05366nam 2200613 450 991046000750332120200520144314.01-4214-1528-3(CKB)3710000000252169(SSID)ssj0001349259(PQKBManifestationID)11870863(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349259(PQKBWorkID)11398595(PQKB)11758945(MiAaPQ)EBC3318850(OCoLC)893010153(MdBmJHUP)muse37320(Au-PeEL)EBL3318850(CaPaEBR)ebr10951579(EXLCZ)99371000000025216920141016h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrGoverned by a spirit of opposition the origins of American political practice in colonial Philadelphia /by Jessica C. RoneyBaltimore, Maryland :Johns Hopkins University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (269 pages) illustrationsStudies in Early American Economy and SocietyIncludes index.1-4214-1527-5 Includes bibliographical references and index."Named Before Thou Wert Born" : A City Imagined, 1682-1700 -- Intoxicated With Power : The Rise and Limits of the Philadelphia Corporation -- Intended for a General Benefit : The Rise of a New Civic Technology -- Amidst "Rancour and Party hatred" : A Changing Civic Landscape -- Lending in Plain Sight : Covert Banks -- Private Men Interfering with Matters of Government : Taking Over From the State -- Mars Ascendant : A Revolution in Arms -- Epilogue."To what extent did the American Revolution involve ordinary people? Historians as notable as Carl Becker and Edmund Morgan famously have asked this question or versions of it, but here Roney approaches it afresh by examining local governance and civic associations in Philadelphia, the largest colonial American city. How did popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks prepare people to adopt radical ideas and take to the streets protesting against tyranny in the 1760s and 70s? Roney's GOVERNED BY A SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION will both be an important addition to the current literature on public life in early America, and also to the wider literature on urban governance in the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. She sheds light on the powerful roles played by men acting in the political and constitutional circumstances of early Philadelphia leading up to the Revolution"--Provided by publisher."During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance, fire protection, and even taxation and military defense. These organizations dramatically expanded the opportunities for white men--rich and poor alike--to shape policies that immediately affected their communities and their own lives. In Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, Jessica Choppin Roney explains how allowing people from all walks of life to participate in political activities amplified citizen access and democratic governance. Merchants, shopkeepers, carpenters, brewers, shoemakers, and silversmiths served as churchwardens, street commissioners, constables, and Overseers of the Poor. They volunteered to fight fires, organized relief for the needy, contributed money toward the care of the sick, took up arms in defense of the community, raised capital for local lending, and even interjected themselves in Indian diplomacy. Ultimately, Roney suggests, popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks empowered people in this critically important colonial city to overthrow the existing government in 1776 and re-envision the parameters of democratic participation. Governed by a Spirit of Opposition argues that the American Revolution did not occasion the birth of commonplace political activity or of an American culture of voluntary association. Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies"--Provided by publisher.Political participationPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistoryMunicipal governmentPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaCitizen participationHistoryPhiladelphia (Pa.)HistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Philadelphia (Pa.)Politics and government17th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)Politics and government18th centuryElectronic books.Political participationHistory.Municipal governmentCitizen participationHistory.974.8/11Roney Jessica C(Jessica Choppin),1978-992434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460007503321Governed by a spirit of opposition2272460UNINA02470nam 2200397 450 991079503510332120230814215831.01-5275-0965-6(CKB)4340000000265329(MiAaPQ)EBC5351383(EXLCZ)99434000000026532920180604d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFinancing innovation and sustainable development in Africa /edited by Muna Ndulo and Steve Kayizzi-MugerwaNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2018.1 online resource (xxiii, 378 pages)1-5275-0556-1 Section 1:Financing Modalities at National and Regional Levels for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development --Section 2:Institutional and Policy Prerequisites for Innovative Financing --Section 3:Responding to Challenges from the Global Arena."This book derives from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014. The symposium explored development financing, which has become an important area of policy discussion in Africa and other developing areas in recent years. Using multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches it considers the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds in the evolving development finance architecture. Further, the volume looks at China's role as an aid donor, the impact of BRICs partnerships in South Africa, the role of NEPAD in mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, and the links between law, trade, and regional integration. The study concurs with previous analyses that greater access to credit by the poor represents the most effective way of fighting poverty and raising the standards of living in Africa. Cornell's Institute for African Development and the African Development Bank were cosponsors of the 2014 symposium" -- Back cover.Economic assistanceAfricaEconomic assistance338.96Ndulo Muna572300Ndulo MunaKayizzi-Mugerwa SteveMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795035103321Financing innovation and sustainable development in Africa3683214UNINA