Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson - Hardcover

Brooke, John L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807833231 ISBN 13: 9780807833230

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. 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, 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 mirr

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About the Author

John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has won the Bancroft Prize for The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844.

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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, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren 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's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window to a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807833231
• ISBN 13: 9780807833230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648