Contested democracy : freedom, race, and power in American history / edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | x, 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen
- An alternative tradition of radicalism : Black abolitionists and the metaphor of revolution / Manisha Sinha
- Isaiah Rynders and the ironies of popular democracy in antebellum New York / Tyler Anbinder
- Leave of court : African American claims-making in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / Martha S. Jones
- City women : slavery and resistance in antebellum St. Louis / Martha Saxton
- Free soil, free labor, and free markets : on antebellum merchant clerks and the tautologies of profit / Michael Zakim
- Make "every slave free and every freeman a voter" : the African American construction of suffrage discourse in the age of emancipation / Wang Xi
- Making it fit : the federal government, liberal individualism, and the American West / Melinda Lawson
- Reconstructing the empire of cotton : a global story / Sven Beckert
- Cuba Libre and American imperial nationalism : conflicting views of racial democracy in post-Reconstruction United States / Alessandra Lorini
- Transnational solidarities : the Sacco and Vanzetti case in global perspective / Lisa McGirr
- "An ironic testimony to the value of American democracy" : assimilationism and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans / Mae M. Ngai
- Student protest, "law and order," and the origins of African American studies in California / Martha Biondi
- Duke Ellington plays Baghdad : rethinking hard and soft power from the outside In / Penny Von Eschen
- The story of American freedom before and after 9/11 / Eric Foner
- Afterword: "From the archives and from the heart" / David W. Blight.