TY - BOOK AU - Shalhope,Robert E. ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 T2 - Reconfiguring American political history SN - 9781421436784 AV - F59.B4 S53 1996 KW - Politics and government KW - fast KW - Democracy KW - Vermont KW - History KW - Bennington KW - 1775-1865 KW - To 1791 KW - Bennington (Vt.) KW - Electronic books. KW - lcgft KW - local N1 - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1996; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Separate paths to the Grants --; 2; The Grants in jeopardy --; 3; The emergence of the Green Mountain Boys --; 4; Newcomers to the Grants --; 5; Independence --; 6; Divisions throughout the town --; 7; The next generation --; 8; Tensions persist --; 9; Paeans to the Green Mountain Boys --; Epilogue : a monument to democracy; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72711/ ER -