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American radicals how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation Holly Jackson

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Author:
Jackson, Holly  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 372 pages illustrations 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
collective biographies
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2019
19th century
19e siècle
1815-1861
1849-1877
Notes:
Massachusetts Book Awards Honors, 2020
Contents:
Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- Part I. Foul oppression in the wind of freedom, 1817-1840. A tremendous no -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Part II. Infidel utopian free lovers, 1836-1858. Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- Part III. Abolition war, 1848-1865. The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- Part IV. The radicals' reconstruction, 1865-1877. To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure
Summary:
"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"-- Provided by publisher
In the 1800s, a new network of dissent-- connecting firebrands and agitators on pastoral communes, in urban mobs, and in genteel parlors across the nation-- vowed to finish the revolution they claimed the founding fathers had only begun. They were men and women, black and white, fiercely devoted to causes that pitted them against mainstream America even while they fought to preserve the nation's founding ideals. Jackson writes these largely forgotten figures back into the story of the nation's most formative and perilous era, and shows that they offers important lessons for our own time. -- adapted from jacket
Topic:
Radicals--History  Search this
Social reformers--History  Search this
Radicaux (Politique)--Histoire  Search this
Réformateurs sociaux--Histoire  Search this
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century  Search this
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism  Search this
HISTORY / Social History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Radicals  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Social reformers  Search this
Radicalism  Search this
Reformers  Search this
History  Search this
Conditions sociales  Search this
Politique et gouvernement  Search this
Histoire  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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