One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worcester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement after the Peace of Utrecht to the eve of the Civil War, as this country's people passed through the formative fires of both national and industrial revolution. Drawing upon a wide range of sources and methods, the book examines the unfolding relationships among ideological discourse, political action, and the institutions and structures of everyday life. Most broadly, the book argues that a broad transition from a republican - or Harringtonian - consensus to a liberal - or Lockean - consensus was conditioned by countervailing episodes of insurgency, running from the Land Bank and the Great Awakening in the 1740s to the rise of political antislavery a century later.
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"In The Heart of the Commonwealth, John L. Brooke uses an impressive analytical ability and a splendid command of data sources and the literature to combine economic, intellectual, political, and social streams to form a rich narrative of the transformation of central Massachusetts from the Peace of Utrecht to the Civil War....[A]n excellent exmaple of how we might move toward a more inclusive analysis of rural economic transformation." Clyde A. Haulman, Journal of the Early Republic
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One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worcester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement after the Peace of Utrecht to the eve of the Civil War.
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sermon preached, unpassed legislation, second parish, membership book, temperance petitioners, dissenting orbit, conflicted towns, bank petitioners, bank subscribers, south county towns, patriot gentry, dissenting societies, orthodox towns, voluntary towns, fiscal protest, northwest uplands, cotton mill fever, temperance petitions, provincial political culture, ministerial rates, county committeemen, corridor towns, antislavery towns, federal covenant, associated districts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Worcester County, General Court, New York, Free Soil, North Brookfield, New Light, New England, Blackstone Valley, Shays's Rebellion, Historical Collections, Stamp Act, Great Awakening, Second Bank, David Hall, Warren Association, Court of Common Pleas, Amasa Walker, Political Parties, Joseph Goffe, Isaac Backus, Levi Lincoln, West Brookfield, Friends of Government, Leicester Academy, Morning Star Lodge Browse Sample Pages:
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