{"product_id":"bennington-and-the-green-mountain-boys-9781421436760","title":"Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the rise and triumph of liberal individualism in America and explores its impact on political culture.   Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1996. Americans who lived between the Revolution and Civil War felt the brunt of resounding and sometimes frightening changes, which together eventually influenced the political culture of early America. In this lively study, Robert E. Shalhope examines one of the changes most difficult to gauge and most controversial among students of the periodthe rise and triumph of liberal individualism in Americaand explores its impact on political culture.   Taking Bennington, Vermont, and its environs as a case study, Shalhope untangles the clash among three competing elements in the communitythe egalitarian communalism of the Strict Congregationalists; the democratic individualism of the revolutionary Green Mountain Boys; and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA penetrating study of Bennington, Vermont, that depicts American political identity during the early republic as characterized as much by intraregional as by interregional conflicts . . . An important contribution to the study of American political life that presents the travails of two generations of Americans who sought to restore a national sense of community and, by doing so, reinvented and reinvigorated the nation's political and social institutions.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Origins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Separate Paths to the Grants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Grants in Jeopardy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The Emergence of the Green Mountain Boys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Change and Conflict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Newcomers to the Grants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Independence\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Divisions Throughout the Town\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: A Different Village\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: The Next Generation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Tensions Persist\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Paeans to the Green Mountain Boys\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Monument to Democracy\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eEssay on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408136741207,"sku":"9781421436760","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bennington-and-the-green-mountain-boys-9781421436760","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}