Dotts, Brian W. <br/><br/>
The political education of Democratus  negotiating civic virtue during the early republic /  [electronic resource] : 
Brian W. Dotts. 
 - Lanham, Md. :  Lexington Books,  2012. 
 - xiii, 271 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction : Ploughshares, Politics, and Pedagogy : The Negotiation of Democratic-Republicanism and the Loss of Civic Sentiment -- Chapter 2. Recovering Civic Republicanism : Ancient and Modern -- Chapter 3. The New Arcadia : 'Set Our Cold Northern Island Burning' -- Chapter 4. Trans-Atlantic Ties : Radical Whig Political Ideals and American Practice -- Chapter 5. 'Who are These, Poor, Groveling, Insignificant Democrats Who Dare -- Libel Us?' 
<br/><br/> "The radical Democratic-Republican Societies that emerged during the 1790s not only challenged conventional interpretations of the civic republican tradition, they also adopted Enlightenment principles in their advocacy for universal public education. Brian W. Dotts' The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic shows that, unlike mainstream educational philosophy of the period, radical democrats supported universal political education as essential in protecting liberty and political equality"-- 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739167212 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political clubs.<br/>Democracy and education.<br/>Citizenship--Study and teaching--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E310  / .D68 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.2