Format:
Online-Ressource (349 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780231141109
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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 contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is essential to a vital democracy, particularly amid the current erosion of human rights and civil liberties within the United States and abroad. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the United S
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction, Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen; 1. An Alternative Tradition of Radicalism: African American Abolitionists and the Metaphor of Revolution, Manisha Sinha; 2. Isaiah Rynders and the Ironies of Popular Democracy in Antebellum New York, Tyler Anbinder; 3. Leave of Court: African American Claims-Making in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Martha S. Jones; 4. City Women: Slavery and Resistance in Antebellum St. Louis, Martha Saxton
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5. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Antebellum Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit, Michael Zakim6. Make "Every Slave Free, and Every Freeman a Voter": The African American Construction of Suffrage Discourse in the Age of Emancipation, Xi Wang; 7. Making It Fit: The Federal Government, Liberal Individualism, and the American West, Melinda Lawson; 8. Reconstructing the Empire of Cotton: A Global Story, Sven Beckert
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9. Cuba Libre and American Imperial Nationalism: Conflicting Views of Racial Democracy in the Post-Reconstruction United States, Alessandra Lorini10. Transnational Solidarities: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case in Global Perspective, Lisa McGirr; 11. "An Ironic Testimony to the Value of American Democracy": Assimilationism and the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans, Mae M. Ngai; 12. Student Protest, "Law and Order," and the Origins of African American Studies in California, Martha Biondi
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13. Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power from the Outside In, Penny Von Eschen14. The Story of American Freedom-Before and After 9/11, Eric Foner; Afterword: "From the Archives and from the Heart", David W. Blight; Notes on Contributors; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231511988
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Contested Democracy : Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
Language:
English
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