Description |
ix, 355 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Cambridge essential histories |
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Cambridge essential histories.
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Summary |
"Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes--socialism, Communism, the labor movement, anarchism, pacifism, anti-racism, women's rights, LGBT liberation, ecology, indigenous rights, and world social justice--in ways that show how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo, even in periods when conservatism appears to push protest to the margins of American society"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience -- War and Peace, 1939-1948 -- All Over this Land, 1949-1959 -- A New Left, 1960-1964 -- The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973 -- Anticipation, 1973-1980 -- Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989 -- What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present -- Conclusion: Radicalism's Future. |
Subject |
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Social movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Radicalism -- United States -- History.
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Political activists -- United States -- History.
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Dissenters -- United States -- History.
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Liberalism -- United States -- History.
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Right and left (Political science) -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
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Liberalism. (OCoLC)fst00997183
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Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
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Right and left (Political science) (OCoLC)fst01097849
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628.
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Added Author |
Phelps, Christopher, 1965- author.
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ISBN |
9780521515603 hardcover |
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0521515602 hardcover |
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9780521731331 paperback |
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052173133X paperback |
Standard No. |
40025131266 |
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