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. |