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Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys - The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 (Paperback)
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Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys - The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 (Paperback)
Series: Reconfiguring American Political History
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In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope supplies a fascinating
microcosmic view of the rise and triumph of liberal individualism
in America and explores its impact on political culture. Selected
by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Originally
published in 1996. Americans who lived between the Revolution and
Civil War felt the brunt of resounding and sometimes frightening
changes, which together eventually influenced the political culture
of early America. In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope examines
one of the changes most difficult to gauge and most controversial
among students of the period-the rise and triumph of liberal
individualism in America-and explores its impact on political
culture. Taking Bennington, Vermont, and its environs as a case
study, Shalhope untangles the clash among three competing elements
in the community-the egalitarian communalism of the Strict
Congregationalists; the democratic individualism of the
revolutionary Green Mountain Boys; and the hierarchical authority
of the community's Federalist gentlemen of property and standing.
None of these players anticipated (and indeed did not wish for) the
result-the emergence of democratic liberalism. Shalhope writes of
class tension, economic competition, and religious differences-and
ultimately of cultural conflict and political partisanship-and yet
throughout uses individual life experiences to give the narrative
piquancy and to emphasize the significance of seemingly small,
personal decisions. Shalhope thus demonstrates how the private
lives of ordinary people played a role in the settlement of public
issues. As an account of a single town and how its residents
responded to change, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys
supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the larger story of how
liberal America came to be.
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