scholarly journals What We Can Learn from Town Meetings

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Matt Leighninger
Keyword(s):  
Town Meetings

A Student Looks at Junior Town Meetings

1952 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 242-244
Author(s):  
Janet Hall
Keyword(s):  
Town Meetings

scholarly journals Collective Interview on the History of Town Meetings

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Frank Bryan ◽  
William Keith ◽  
James Kloppenberg ◽  
Jane Mansbridge ◽  
Michael Morrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Town Meetings

Myths of Plague

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Town Meetings

This chapter delves in greater detail into the culture, politics, and ideologies of plague protest principally in India, distinguishing it from cholera riots in Europe and assertions by colonial magistrates and foreign newspapers that religious fatalism, prejudices against Western medicine and science, and mythologies of poisoning sparked the Indian protests. Instead, this chapter catalogues the abuses suffered by Indian communities and their efforts to negotiate with governments to reform outdated and damaging anti-plague preventive measures. Demonstrations, town meetings with concrete resolutions, and petitions united castes, classes, and the subcontinent’s two major religions. The chapter then compares the Indian ideologies and protests with those in China, Europe, and San Francisco.

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