Long road to Harper's Ferry : the rise of the first American left /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lause, Mark A. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Pluto Press, 2018.
Series:	People's history.
Subjects:	United States > Politics and government > History. États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Histoire. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General. HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877) Politics and government. United States. Electronic books. History.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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 Cadres7. 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.