Contested democracy
Subtitle: freedom, race, and power in American history
By: edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen
Contributors: Sinha, Manisha; Von Eschen, Penny M.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780231141109
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen; title: An alternative tradition of radicalism : Black abolitionists and the metaphor of revolution / Manisha Sinha; title: Isaiah Rynders and the ironies of popular democracy in antebellum New York / Tyler Anbinder; title: Leave of court : African American claims-making in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / Martha S. Jones; title: City women : slavery and resistance in antebellum St. Louis / Martha Saxton; title: Free soil, free labor, and free markets : on antebellum merchant clerks and the tautologies of profit / Michael Zakim; title: Make "every slave free and every freeman a voter" : the African American construction of suffrage discourse in the age of emancipation / Wang Xi; title: Making it fit : the federal government, liberal individualism, and the American West / Melinda Lawson; title: Reconstructing the empire of cotton : a global story / Sven Beckert; title: Cuba Libre and American imperial nationalism : conflicting views of racial democracy in post-Reconstruction United States / Alessandra Lorini; title: Transnational solidarities : the Sacco and Vanzetti case in global perspective / Lisa McGirr; title: "An ironic testimony to the value of American democracy" : assimilationism and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans / Mae M. Ngai; title: Student protest, "law and order," and the origins of African American studies in California / Martha Biondi; title: Duke Ellington plays Baghdad : rethinking hard and soft power from the outside In / Penny Von Eschen; title: The story of American freedom before and after 9/11 / Eric Foner; title: Afterword: "From the archives and from the heart" / David W. Blight