Contested democracy : freedom, race, and power in American history /

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"With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sinha, Manisha, Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Democracy > United States > History.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History.
Radicalism > United States > History.
Social movements > United States > History.
Radicalisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Democracy
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Race relations
Radicalism
Social conditions
Social movements
Demokratie
Democratie.
Vrijheid.
Mensenrechten.
Slavernij.
Demokratie > USA > Geschichte.
Freiheit > USA > Geschichte.
Demokratie.
Rassenbeziehung.
Soziale Situation.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung.
United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Histoire.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
USA > Politik > Geschichte.
USA.
Schwarze.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen
  • An alternative tradition of radicalism : Black abolitionists and the metaphor of revolution / Manisha Sinha
  • Isaiah Rynders and the ironies of popular democracy in antebellum New York / Tyler Anbinder
  • Leave of court : African American claims-making in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / Martha S. Jones
  • City women : slavery and resistance in antebellum St. Louis / Martha Saxton
  • Free soil, free labor, and free markets : on antebellum merchant clerks and the tautologies of profit / Michael Zakim
  • Make "every slave free and every freeman a voter" : the African American construction of suffrage discourse in the age of emancipation / Wang Xi
  • Making it fit : the federal government, liberal individualism, and the American West / Melinda Lawson
  • Reconstructing the empire of cotton : a global story / Sven Beckert
  • Cuba Libre and American imperial nationalism : conflicting views of racial democracy in post-Reconstruction United States / Alessandra Lorini
  • Transnational solidarities : the Sacco and Vanzetti case in global perspective / Lisa McGirr
  • "An ironic testimony to the value of American democracy" : assimilationism and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans / Mae M. Ngai
  • Student protest, "law and order," and the origins of African American studies in California / Martha Biondi
  • Duke Ellington plays Baghdad : rethinking hard and soft power from the outside In / Penny Von Eschen
  • The story of American freedom before and after 9/11 / Eric Foner
  • Afterword: "From the archives and from the heart" / David W. Blight.

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