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200 10$aCreating a nation of joiners $edemocracy and civil society in early national Massachusetts /$fJohann N. Neem
210   $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (270 p.)
225 0 $aHarvard Historical Studies ;$v163
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-674-03079-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-242) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Revolutionary Commonwealth -- $t2. Fragmentation and Contestation -- $t3. The Political Transformation of Civil Society -- $t4. Forging a Grassroots Public Sphere -- $t5. The Elite Public Sphere -- $t6. Democrats Strike Back -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex
330   $aEver 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, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.
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606   $aCitizens' associations$zMassachusetts$xHistory
606   $aDemocracy$zMassachusetts$xHistory
607   $aMassachusetts$xPolitics and government$y1775-1865
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