Democracy by petition : popular politics in transformation, 1790-1870
Petitioning has a forgotten but essential role in the history of modern democracy. In the antebellum era, petitions gave North Americans, especially the disenfranchised, a critical tool to shape the political agenda. Daniel Carpenter shows how mass petitioning facilitated civil rights, voting, organ...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : Harvard University Press,
2021
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Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | ProQuest Ebook Central
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Schlagworte: | Petitions Democracy Political participation Democracy-North America-History-19th century Petitions-North America-History-19th century Political participation-North America-History-19th century Electronic books Nordamerika Demokratie Petition |
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