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Long road to Harper's Ferry : the rise of the first American left /

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lause, Mark A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2018.
Colección:People's history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Working Citizens: From Ideas to Organization; 1. Liberty: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Legacies and Challenges; 2. Equality: The Mandates of Community and the Necessity of Expropriation; 3. Solidarity: Coalescing a Mass Resistance; Part Two: Working Citizens Towards a Working Class: From Organization to a Movement; 4. The Movement Party: Beyond the Failures of Civic Ritual; 5. Confronting Race and Empire: Slavery and Mexico; 6. Free Soil: The Electoral Distillation of Radicalism, 1847-8.
  • Part Three: An Unrelenting Radicalism: from Movement to Cadres7. Free Soil Radicalized: The Rise and Course of the Free Democrats, 1849-53; 8. The Pre-Revolutionary Tinderbox: Universal Democratic Republicans, Free Democrats and Radical Abolitionists, 1853-6; 9. The Spark: Small Initiatives and Mass Upheavals, 1856-60; Epilogue; Notes; Index.