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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674258921
035 _a(DE-B1597)583132
035 _a(OCoLC)1243307005
040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCarpenter, Daniel
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDemocracy by Petition :
_bPopular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 /
_cDaniel Carpenter.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (560 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tSTIRRINGS --
_tAWAKENINGS --
_tDEMOCRACIES AND CLOSURES --
_tAfterword: Agendas, Organization, and the Democracy of Petitions --
_tArchives and Manuscript Collections Consulted --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThis pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democracy. Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Daniel Carpenter shows, however, democracy in America emerged not merely through elections and parties, but through the transformation of an ancient political tool: the petition. A statement of grievance accompanied by a list of signatures, the petition afforded women and men excluded from formal politics the chance to make their voices heard and to reshape the landscape of political possibility. Democracy by Petition traces the explosion and expansion of petitioning across the North American continent. Indigenous tribes in Canada, free Blacks from Boston to the British West Indies, Irish canal workers in Indiana, and Hispanic settlers in territorial New Mexico all used petitions to make claims on those in power. Petitions facilitated the extension of suffrage, the decline of feudal land tenure, and advances in liberty for women, African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. Even where petitioners failed in their immediate aims, their campaigns advanced democracy by setting agendas, recruiting people into political causes, and fostering aspirations of equality. Far more than periodic elections, petitions provided an everyday current of communication between officeholders and the people. The coming of democracy in America owes much to the unprecedented energy with which the petition was employed in the antebellum period. By uncovering this neglected yet vital strand of nineteenth-century life, Democracy by Petition will forever change how we understand our political history.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zNorth America
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aDemokratie.
650 0 _aNordamerika.
650 0 _aPetitions
_zNorth America
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aPolitical participation
_zNorth America
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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653 _aAmerican democracy.
653 _aNative American resistance.
653 _aNative Americans.
653 _aWhig Party.
653 _aabolitionism.
653 _aagenda-setting.
653 _aagendas.
653 _aantislavery.
653 _ademocracy.
653 _aliberal democracy.
653 _apetition.
653 _apetitions.
653 _apolitical associations.
653 _apolitical equality.
653 _apublic sphere.
653 _arecruitment.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258921
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674258921
856 4 2 _3Cover
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