TY  - BOOK
AU  - NEEM,Johann N
TI  - Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts 
T2  - Harvard Historical Studies
SN  - 9780674030794
AV  - JK3189 .N44 2008eb
U1  - 306.209744/09033 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Citizens' associations
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - History
KW  - Civil society
KW  - United States
KW  - Democracy
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Revolutionary Commonwealth --; 2. Fragmentation and Contestation --; 3. The Political Transformation of Civil Society --; 4. Forging a Grassroots Public Sphere --; 5. The Elite Public Sphere --; 6. Democrats Strike Back --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Ever 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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