Long road to Harper's Ferry : the rise of the first American left / Mark A. Lause.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lause, Mark A., author.

Series:

• People's history.
• People's History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 266 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2018.

Summary:

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

Contents:

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part One: Working Citizens: From Ideas to Organization
• 1. Liberty: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Legacies and Challenges
• 2. Equality: The Mandates of Community and the Necessity of Expropriation
• 3. Solidarity: Coalescing a Mass Resistance
• Part Two: Working Citizens Towards a Working Class: From Organization to a Movement
• 4. The Movement Party: Beyond the Failures of Civic Ritual
• 5. Confronting Race and Empire: Slavery and Mexico
• 6. Free Soil: The Electoral Distillation of Radicalism, 1847-8
• Part Three: An Unrelenting Radicalism: from Movement to Cadres
• 7. Free Soil Radicalized: The Rise and Course of the Free Democrats, 1849-53
• 8. The Pre-Revolutionary Tinderbox: Universal Democratic Republicans, Free Democrats and Radical Abolitionists, 1853-6
• 9. The Spark: Small Initiatives and Mass Upheavals, 1856-60
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 24, 2024).

ISBN:

1-78680-324-0