@article{340060,
      author = {Neem, Johann N.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/340060},
      title = {Creating a nation of joiners : democracy and civil society  in early national Massachusetts /},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      abstract = {Neem explores the multiple conflicts that produced a  vibrant pluralistic civil society following the American  Revolution. The result was an astounding release of civic  energy as ordinary people, long denied a voice in public  debates, organized to advocate temperance, to protect the  Sabbath, and to abolish slavery; elite Americans formed  private institutions to promote education and their  stewardship of culture and knowledge. --from publisher  description},
      recid = {340060},
      pages = {259 p. ;},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      year = {2008},
}