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Author Brooke, John L

Title Columbia rising : civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson / John L. Brooke
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 629 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Contents Prologue. Consent and Civil Society in the Age of Revolution : The Revolutionary Crisis of Consent, 1775-1783 -- Conflict and Civil Establishments, 1783-1793 -- Deliberation and Civil Procedure, 1787-1795 -- Persuasion and Civil Boundaries, 1780s-1790s -- Land Politics in Columbia, 1781-1804 -- Boundaries, Sympathies, and the Settlement, 1785-1800 -- Party and Corruption : The Columbia Junto and the Rise of Martin Van Buren, 1799-1812 -- Female Interventions -- Race, Property, and Civil Exclusions, 1800-1821 -- Jacksonian Columbia
Summary Between the end of the Revolution and the Age of Jackson, thousands of localities within the young American nation struggled to extend the political and social rights embedded in Enlightenment ideals. Would the governed freely offer their consent? Would all citizens enjoy equal access to civil institutions?
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores this struggle and its powerful contradictions as it unfolded in one country named in honor of the mythic figure that embodied the promise of the young republic. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen
The story of Martin Van Buren--kingpin of New York's Jacksonian "Regency," president of the United States, and first theoretician of American party politics--threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system
Brooke masterfully imbues local history with national significance, and his analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers an ideal window on a local struggle that mirroted the nationwide effort to define American citizenship. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 -- Political and social views
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 fast
Subject Political rights -- New York (State) -- Columbia County -- History
Citizenship -- New York (State) -- Columbia County -- History
Civil society -- New York (State) -- Columbia County -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Citizenship
Civil society
Political and social views
Political rights
Politics and government
SUBJECT Columbia County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
Columbia County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject New York (State) -- Columbia County
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 9781469600949
1469600943
Other Titles Civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson