Contested democracy : freedom, race, and power in American history / edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen.

Other author Sinha, Manisha.
Other author Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie)
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Democracy--United States. --History.
Power (Social sciences)--United States. --History.
Radicalism--United States. --History.
Social movements--United States. --History.
United States--History.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Social conditions.

Contents Introduction / Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen -- An alternative tradition of radicalism : Black abolitionists and the metaphor of revolution / Manisha Sinha -- Isaiah Rynders and the ironies of popular democracy in antebellum New York / Tyler Anbinder -- Leave of court : African American claims-making in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / Martha S. Jones -- City women : slavery and resistance in antebellum St. Louis / Martha Saxton -- Free soil, free labor, and free markets : on antebellum merchant clerks and the tautologies of profit / Michael Zakim -- Make "every slave free and every freeman a voter" : the African American construction of suffrage discourse in the age of emancipation / Wang Xi -- Making it fit : the federal government, liberal individualism, and the American West / Melinda Lawson -- Reconstructing the empire of cotton : a global story / Sven Beckert -- Cuba Libre and American imperial nationalism : conflicting views of racial democracy in post-Reconstruction United States / Alessandra Lorini -- Transnational solidarities : the Sacco and Vanzetti case in global perspective / Lisa McGirr -- "An ironic testimony to the value of American democracy" : assimilationism and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans / Mae M. Ngai -- Student protest, "law and order," and the origins of African American studies in California / Martha Biondi -- Duke Ellington plays Baghdad : rethinking hard and soft power from the outside In / Penny Von Eschen -- The story of American freedom before and after 9/11 / Eric Foner -- Afterword: "From the archives and from the heart" / David W. Blight.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006029191
ISBN0231141106 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231141109 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E 178.6 .C676 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold