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UNINA9910457174503321 |
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Autore |
Lawrence Michael Anthony <1959-> |
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Radicals in their own time : four hundred years of struggle for liberty and equal justice in America / / Michael Anthony Lawrence [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-139-13993-2 |
1-107-21425-4 |
1-283-31515-7 |
1-139-13917-7 |
9786613315151 |
0-511-92161-6 |
1-139-14495-2 |
1-139-14075-2 |
1-139-13762-X |
1-139-14163-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil rights - United States - History |
Civil rights workers - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Roger Williams (1603-1683) : Freeborn -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) : Revolution -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) : Gender Wars -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) : American Apartheid -- Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933-2005) : Betrayals and Bridges. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Radicals in Their Own Time explores the lives of five Americans, with lifetimes spanning four hundred years, who agitated for greater freedom in America. Every generation has them: individuals who speak truth to power and crave freedom from arbitrary authority. This book makes two important observations in discussing Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. E. B. Du Bois and Vine Deloria, Jr. First, each believed that government must broadly tolerate |
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