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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462353203321

Autore

Lause Mark A

Titolo

Young America [[electronic resource] ] : land, labor, and the Republican community / / Mark A. Lause

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-58354-2

9786613895998

0-252-09169-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

303.4840973

Soggetti

Land reform - United States - History - 19th century

Working class - Political activity - United States - 19th century

Labor movement - United States - History - 19th century

Social movements - United States - History - 19th century

Radicalism - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1815-1861

United States Social conditions To 1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1. A WORKERS' MOVEMENT""; ""1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement""; ""2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association""; ""3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism""; ""Illustrations follow page 46""; ""PART 2. THE AGRARIAN PERSUASION""; ""4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society""

""5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution""""6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology""; ""PART 3. THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL REFORM""; ""7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists""; ""8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism""; ""9. The Republican Revolution: Victories beyond and by the Ballot"";



""Conclusion""; ""Appendix A: Land Reform, Cooperationist, and Socialist Activities, 1844-52""; ""Appendix B: The National Industrial Congresses""; ""Appendix C: New England Regional Associations""

""Appendix D: National Reform Songs and Poems""""Notes""; ""Index""