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Imagining deliberative democracy in the early American republic / Sandra M. Gustafson.
LIBRA E338 .G87 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gustafson, Sandra M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deliberative democracy--United States.
- Deliberative democracy.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--History--1815-1861.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 271 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Deliberation: a very brief history
- The idea of deliberation
- Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic
- Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts
- Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy
- Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world
- The eloquence of modern republicanism
- The view from Bunker Hill
- Writing the modern republic
- Models of ancient eloquence
- Res publica redivivus
- Eloquent Shakespeare
- Arguing with the Bible
- The politics and aesthetics of deliberation
- The rise of literary oratory
- Daniel Webster's genuine word
- The frontier humor of David Crockett
- Prophesying the multiracial republic
- Democracy and the "three races"
- Beyond the white Christian republic
- Reasoning with David Walker
- Listening to the wisdom of babes
- Toward multiracial deliberations
- Deliberative fictions
- Failures of deliberation
- Cooper's trials
- How to read deliberatively
- Democratic hermeneutics
- The great American deliberative novel
- Protest at Mashpee
- Property matters
- Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226311296
- 0226311295
- OCLC:
- 666234963
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