Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys

The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3676-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 704 g

Reihe: Reconfiguring American Political History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shalhope, Robert E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Origins
Chapter 1: Separate Paths to the Grants
Chapter 2: The Grants in Jeopardy
Chapter 3: The Emergence of the Green Mountain Boys
Part II: Change and Conflict
Chapter 4: Newcomers to the Grants
Chapter 5: Independence
Chapter 6: Divisions Throughout the Town
Part III: A Different Village
Chapter 7: The Next Generation
Chapter 8: Tensions Persist
Chapter 9: Paeans to the Green Mountain Boys
Epilogue: A Monument to Democracy
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shalhope, Robert E
Robert E. Shalhope is George Lynn Cross Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Sterling Price: Portrait of a Southerner, John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican, and The Roots of Democracy: American Culture and Thought, 1760-1800.

Robert E. Shalhope is George Lynn Cross Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Sterling Price: Portrait of a Southerner, John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican, and The Roots of Democracy: American Culture and Thought, 1760-1800.