Diplomats in Buckskins: History of Indian Delegations in Washington City - Hardcover

Viola, Herman J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874749441 ISBN 13: 9780874749441

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 1981

Synopsis

Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent times, but most are run by professionals who lobby Congress or deliver social services to clients. What will happen to U.S. democracy if participatory groups and social movements wither, while civic involvement becomes one more occupation rather than every citizen’s right and duty? In Diminished Democracy, Theda Skocpol shows that this decline in public involvement has not always been the case in this country—and how, by understanding the causes of this change, we might reverse it.

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Review:

"The diligence with which Dr. Viola pursued his research has enabled him to write a most rewarding book which captures the agonies and pleasures, successes and defeats, and humor and pathos of the delegates as they conferred with Washington's sympathetic bur mostly patronizing and diffident bureaucracy."

Synopsis:

This text traces the Indian delegation story from 1623, the date of the ill-fated Jamestown peace treaty, to the present. It particularly focuses on the 19th-century delegations and their experiences in Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0874749441
• ISBN 13: 9780874749441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256