Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts
Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts By Johann N. Neem
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2008 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0674030796 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2008 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0674030796 | PDF | 1 MB
A powerful analysis that will reshape our understanding of the transformation of civil society in the early American republic. Neem's study is part of an emerging literature forcing a reconsideration of the classic Tocquevillean account of voluntary association and the state. I am impressed with the depth of the research, the sharpness and acuity of the interpretation, and the clarity of the writing. This is an important book. --John L. Brooke, Ohio State University Beautifully conceived and clearly written, Creating a Nation of Joiners is a major contribution to our understanding of the early Republic. Not only does it nicely show how bitterly contested was the struggle over the creation of a civil society, but it contains the best account of the changing nature of the corporation since Oscar and Mary Handlin's Commonwealth. A superb study. --Gordon S. Wood, Brown University