LEADER 06268nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910454885303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51198-1 024 7 $a10.7312/sinh14110 035 $a(CKB)1000000000772126 035 $a(EBL)908433 035 $a(OCoLC)818855935 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11479673 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668476 035 $a(PQKB)10172193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908433 035 $a(DE-B1597)459338 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938176 035 $a(OCoLC)1029824454 035 $a(OCoLC)1032680048 035 $a(OCoLC)1037968674 035 $a(OCoLC)1042019350 035 $a(OCoLC)1043635122 035 $a(OCoLC)979573642 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10604446 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690506 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000772126 100 $a20060906d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aContested democracy$b[electronic resource] $efreedom, race, and power in American history /$fedited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-59224-1 311 $a0-231-14110-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction / $rSinha, Manisha / Eschen, Penny Von -- $t1. An Alternative Tradition of Radicalism: African American Abolitionists and the Metaphor of Revolution / $rSinha, Manisha -- $t2. Isaiah Rynders and the Ironies of Popular Democracy in Antebellum New York / $rAnbinder, Tyler -- $t3. Leave of Court: African American Claims-Making in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / $rJones, Martha S. -- $t4. City Women: Slavery and Resistance in Antebellum St. Louis / $rSaxton, Martha -- $t5. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Antebellum Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit / $rZakim, Michael -- $t6. Make "Every Slave Free, and Every Freeman a Voter": The African American Construction of Suffrage Discourse in the Age of Emancipation / $rWang, Xi -- $t7. Making It Fit: The Federal Government, Liberal Individualism, and the American West / $rLawson, Melinda -- $t8. Reconstructing the Empire of Cotton: A Global Story / $rBeckert, Sven -- $t9. Cuba Libre and American Imperial Nationalism: Conflicting Views of Racial Democracy in the Post- Reconstruction United States / $rLorini, Alessandra -- $t10. Transnational Solidarities: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case in Global Perspective / $rMcGirr, Lisa -- $t11. "An Ironic Testimony to the Value of American Democracy": Assimilationism and the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans / $rNgai, Mae M. -- $t12. Student Protest, "Law and Order," and the Origins of African American Studies in California / $rBiondi, Martha -- $t13. Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power from the Outside In / $rEschen, Penny Von -- $t14. The Story of American Freedom-Before and After 9/11 / $rFoner, Eric -- $tAfterword: "From the Archives and from the Heart" / $rBlight, David W. -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex 330 $aWith essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is essential to a vital democracy, particularly amid the current erosion of human rights and civil liberties within the United States and abroad. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the United States and in the exercise of American power abroad, these essays probe challenges to American democracy through conflicts shaped by race, slavery, gender, citizenship, political economy, immigration, law, empire, and the idea of the nation state. In this volume, writers demonstrate how opposition to the expansion of democracy has shaped the American tradition as much as movements for social and political change. By foregrounding those who have been marginalized in U.S society as well as the powerful, these historians and scholars argue for an alternative vision of American freedom that confronts the limitations, failings, and contradictions of U.S. power. Their work provides crucial insight into the role of the United States in this latest age of American empire and the importance of different and oppositional visions of American democracy and freedom. At a time of intense disillusionment with U.S. politics and of increasing awareness of the costs of empire, these contributors argue that responsible historical scholarship can challenge the blatant manipulation of discourses on freedom. 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