Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States (New Americanists)

by Christopher Castiglia (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

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  Focuses on US citizens' democratic impulse: their ability to imagine and to work with others to create democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. This book contends that citizens of the early US were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent interiors of their own bodies.