| Description |
vi, 266 pages ; 22 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
People's history |
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People's history (Pluto Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Part one. Working citizens: from ideas to organization. Liberty: eighteenth-century transatlantic legacies and challenges -- Equality: the mandates of community and the necessity of expropriation -- Solidarity: coalescing a mass resistance. |
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Part two. Working citizens towards a working class: from organization to a movement. The movement party: beyond the failures of civic ritual -- Confronting race and empire: slavery and Mexico -- Free soil: the electoral distillation of radicalism, 1847-8. |
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Part three. An unrelenting radicalism: from movement to cadres. Free soil radicalized: the rise and course of the Free Democrats, 1849-53 -- The pre-revolutionary tinderbox: Universal Democratic Republicans, Free Democrats and radical abolitionists, 1853-6 -- The spark: small initiatives and mass upheavals, 1856-60 -- Epilogue: Survival and persistence: the lineages and legacies of the Early American Movement. |
| Summary |
Offers a comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals, and militant abolitionists who paved the way to the failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Lause provides new insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown socialist movement in America--from Thomas Paine's revolution to Robert Owen's utopianism, and from Thomas Skidmore's agrarianism to George Henry Evans's industrial workers' reforms. He also discusses the persistent resistance of Native Americans to the expansion of capitalism. Showing how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship, Lause presents an historical background to help us understand the rise of radicalism in the United States today. --Adapted from publisher description. |
| Subject |
Socialism -- United States -- History.
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Social movements -- United States.
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United States -- History -- 1815-1861.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
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Socialism. (OCoLC)fst01123637
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Rise of the first American left |
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Harpers Ferry |
| ISBN |
9780745337593 paperback |
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0745337597 paperback |
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9780745337609 hardcover |
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0745337600 hardcover |
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9781786803245 |
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9781786803269 |
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9781786803252 |
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