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The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Early American Studies
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On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the
British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory
expectations about the political process. Not only was there
disagreement over the responsibilities of voters and candidates,
confusion extended beyond elections to the relationship between
elected officials and the populations they served. So varied were
people's expectations that it is impossible to talk about a single
American political culture in this period. In The Varieties of
Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, Richard R.
Beeman offers an ambitious overview of political life in
pre-Revolutionary America. Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts,
New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry
regions of the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and northern New England,
Beeman uncovers an extraordinary diversity of political belief and
practice. In so doing, he closes the gap between eighteenth-century
political rhetoric and reality. Political life in
eighteenth-century America, Beeman demonstrates, was diffuse and
fragmented, with America's British subjects and their leaders often
speaking different political dialects altogether. Although the
majority of people living in America before the Revolution would
not have used the term "democracy," important changes were underway
that made it increasingly difficult for political leaders to ignore
"popular pressures." As the author shows in a final chapter on the
Revolution, those popular pressures, once unleashed, were difficult
to contain and drove the colonies slowly and unevenly toward a
democratic form of government. Synthesizing a wide range of primary
and secondary sources, Beeman offers a coherent account of the way
politics actually worked in this formative time for American
political culture.
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