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Title

The political education of Democratus : negotiating civic virtue during the early republic / Brian W. Dotts.

Author

Dotts, Brian W.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

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Description

xiii, 271 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The radical Democratic-Republican Societies that emerged during the 1790s not only challenged conventional interpretations of the civic republican tradition, they also adopted Enlightenment principles in their advocacy for universal public education. Brian W. Dotts' The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic shows that, unlike mainstream educational philosophy of the period, radical democrats supported universal political education as essential in protecting liberty and political equality"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• EDUCATION / General
• EDUCATION / History
• Political clubs
• Democracy and education
• Citizenship > Study and teaching > United States
• United States > History > Constitutional period, 1789-1809

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction : Ploughshares, Politics, and Pedagogy : The Negotiation of Democratic-Republicanism and the Loss of Civic Sentiment -- Chapter 2. Recovering Civic Republicanism : Ancient and Modern -- Chapter 3. The New Arcadia : 'Set Our Cold Northern Island Burning' -- Chapter 4. Trans-Atlantic Ties : Radical Whig Political Ideals and American Practice -- Chapter 5. 'Who are These, Poor, Groveling, Insignificant Democrats Who Dare -- Libel Us?'

ISBN

• 9780739167205 (hardback)
• 0739167200 (hardback)
• 9780739167212 (electronic)
• 0739167219 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2011051752

OCLC

769232545

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library