The strength of a people : the idea of an informed citizenry in America, 1650-1870 /

Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be co...

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Váldodahkki: Brown, Richard D.
Materiálatiipa: Licensed eBooks
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Almmustuhtton: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
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Sisdoallologahallan:
  • Ch. 1. English Subjects and Citizens from the Reformation through the Glorious Revolution
  • Ch. 2. Freedom and Citizenship in Britain and Its American Colonies
  • Ch. 3. Bulwark of Revolutionary Liberty: The Recognition of the Informed Citizen
  • Ch. 4. Shaping an Informed Citizenry for a Republican Future
  • Ch. 5. The Idea of an Informed Citizenry and the Mobilization of Institutions, 1820-1850
  • Ch. 6. Testing the Meaning of an Informed Citizenry, 1820-1870
  • Epilogue: Looking Backward: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry at the End of the Twentieth Century.