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Autore |
Adams Katherine H. <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Alice Paul and the American suffrage campaign / / Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008 |
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9786612941634 |
9781282941632 |
1282941631 |
9780252090349 |
0252090349 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Suffragists - United States |
Women - Suffrage - United States - History |
Women's rights - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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front cover -- title page -- copyright -- table of contents -- intro -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- chapter 7 -- chapter 8 -- chapter 9 -- conclusion -- bibliography -- index -- back cover. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence. Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather |
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