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Radicals in America : the U.S. Left since the Second World War / Howard Brick, University of Michigan, Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham.

Van Pelt Library HN57 .B653 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brick, Howard, 1953- author.
Phelps, Christopher, 1965- author.
Series:
Cambridge essential histories
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
Social movements.
Right and left (Political science).
History.
Dissenters.
Political activists.
Radicalism.
United States.
Social movements--United States--History--21st century.
Radicalism--United States--History.
Political activists--United States--History.
Dissenters--United States--History.
Liberalism--United States--History.
Liberalism.
Right and left (Political science)--United States--History.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Politics and government.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
ix, 355 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Summary:
"Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes--socialism, Communism, the labor movement, anarchism, pacifism, anti-racism, women's rights, LGBT liberation, ecology, indigenous rights, and world social justice--in ways that show how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo, even in periods when conservatism appears to push protest to the margins of American society"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience
War and Peace, 1939-1948
All Over this Land, 1949-1959
A New Left, 1960-1964
The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973
Anticipation, 1973-1980
Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989
What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present
Conclusion: Radicalism's Future.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521515603
0521515602
9780521731331
052173133X
OCLC:
904755824

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