Long road to Harpers Ferry the rise of the first American left / Mark A. Lause.
| Author/creator | Lause, Mark A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, 2018. |
| Description | vi, 266 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Rise of the first American left |
| Series | People's history People's history (Pluto Press) UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Working citizens : from ideas to organization. Liberty : eighteenth-century transatlantic legacies and challenges -- Equality : the mandates of community and the necessity of expropriation -- Solidarity : coalescing a mass resistance. |
| Contents | Working citizens towards a working class : from organization to a movement. The movement party : beyond the failures of civic ritual -- Confronting race and empire : slavery and Mexico -- Free soil : the electoral distillation of radicalism, 1847-8. |
| Contents | An unrelenting radicalism : from movement to cadres. Free soil radicalized : the rise and course of the Free Democrats, 1849-53 -- The pre-revolutionary tinderbox : Universal Democratic Republicans, Free Democrats and radical abolitionists, 1853-6 -- The spark : small initiatives and mass upheavals, 1856-60 -- Survival and persistence : the lineages and legacies of the Early American Movement. |
| Abstract | Offers a comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals, and militant abolitionists who paved the way to the failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Lause provides new insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown socialist movement in America--from Thomas Paine's revolution to Robert Owen's utopianism, and from Thomas Skidmore's agrarianism to George Henry Evans's industrial workers' reforms. He also discusses the persistent resistance of Native Americans to the expansion of capitalism. Showing how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship, Lause presents an historical background to help us understand the rise of radicalism in the United States today. --Adapted from publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022435755 |
| ISBN | 9780745337593 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0745337597 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780745337609 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0745337600 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |