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
Otros Autores: Lause, Mark A., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press 2018.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:People's history.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424821906719
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 Cadres
  • 7. 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.