ISBN:
9780525573098
,
9780525573104
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 372 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
303.48/409034
Keywords:
Radicals Biography History 19th century
;
Social reformers Biography History 19th century
;
United States Social conditions 19th century
;
United States Politics and government 19th century
;
United States History 1815-1861
;
United States History 1849-1877
;
USA
;
Protestbewegung
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Geschichte 18170-1877
Abstract:
Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- A tremendous no -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.
Abstract:
"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"--
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