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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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1996.
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Mục lục:
- 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.