| The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791-1850 Contributor(s): Roth, Randolph A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 051166494X ISBN-13: 9780511664946 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 974.303 |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Vermont |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Age of Democratic Revolution, which spanned the period between the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 and the middle of the nineteenth century, witnessed a profound transformation in the role of governments and the ways in which religious institutions shaped the morals and spiritual beliefs of the societies that surrounded them. Nowhere was that transformation more dramatic than in Vermont, where the pioneers who settled New England's northern frontier launched the most radical democratic revolution of the era. There a society arose that was formally committed to the ideals of democracy, equality, and religious freedom, and rejected slavery, monarchy, established churches, and imperial domination. |