Dissent : the history of an American idea / Ralph Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Ralph, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenters--United States--History.

Dissenters.

Protest movements--United States--History.

Protest movements.

Social reformers--United States--History.

Social reformers.

History.

United States--Social conditions--Sources.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Political science.

Social history.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 603 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from colonial times to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time, responding to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Dissent and America

The "free aire of a new world"

Dissent in an age of reason

Revolution

Discord in the new republic

Slavery and its discontents

Reformers and dissidents

Expansion and conflict

Dissent imperils the union

A nation divides

Liberation and suppression

Protest and conflict in the West

Workers of the world unite!

The new manifest destiny

Progressives and radicals

Making the world safe for democracy

Traditionalism collides with modernism

A new deal for America

The good war?

Dissent in an age of conformity

Civil rights : an American revolution

Make love, not war

Mobilization and backlash

A new age of dissent

The arc of dissent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479806652

147980665X

OCLC:

893452379