George M Dennison

Biographic Data

ID4408135
NAMEGeorge M Dennison
GIVEN NAMESGeorge M
FAMILY NAMEDennison
SIGNATUREDENNISON G M
AFFILIATIONSSupreme Court of the United States
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
H-INDEX1

  • The “Revolution Principle: Ideology and Constitutionalism in the Thought of James Wilson

    Open AccessGeorge M DennisonARTICLEThe Review of Politics1977Cited by: 3References: 5

    Americans have not always adjusted comfortably to their peculiar heritage as the first revolutionary people of the modern era. Yet the idea of revolution fascinated the founding generation. The reflective, educated leaders based their speculation on the classical conception they inherited from the English Whig or Common-wealth radicals and the venerable ancients. Many went beyond that perspective in the effort to explain the changes produced by t…

  • The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831-1861

    Albert T Klyberg, George M DennisonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1976

  • The Dorr War and the Emergence of the Leviathan State

    Peter J Coleman, George M DennisonARTICLEReviews in American History1976

  • The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831-1861

    Marvin E Gettleman, George M DennisonARTICLEJournal of American History1976

    Journal Article The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831–1861. By George M. Dennison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976. xiv + 250 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $17.50.) Get access Marvin E. Gettleman Marvin E. Gettleman Polytechnic Institute of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 715–716, https://doi.o…

  • Historical Hide and Seek: Or, the Search for the Historical America

    George M Dennison, Paul K ConkinARTICLEReviews in American History1975

  • The American Territorial System

    George M Dennison, John Porter BloomARTICLEJournal of American History1974

    Journal Article The American Territorial System. Ed. by John Porter Bloom. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1974. xv + 248 pp. Tables and notes. $10.00.) Get access George M. Dennison George M. Dennison Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 773–774, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899952 Published: 01 December 1974

  • Martial Law: The Development of a Theory of Emergency Powers, 1776-1861

    George M DennisonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1974

    Journal Article Martial Law: The Development Of a Theory of Emergency Powers, 1776–1861 Get access George M. Dennison George M. Dennison Associate Professor of History *Colorado State University. The article grew out of research for a forthcoming book dealing with the Dorr War in Rhode Island in 1842 and the Supreme Court cases arising from that incident. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of…

  • Fire

    Open AccessGeorge M Dennison, George DennisonARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1970

    Peter Schumann's Fire (which I count among the finest plays I have seen), more than any play I have seen has the quality of prayer. Prayer (for me) is a childhood memory, but I remember things like these: a peopling of death with human forms; a vague yet affecting sense of the scale of things; a notion of the preciousness of life, and of its vulnerability; a touch of fear, since fate is everywhere and has little to do with one's wishes. I have te…