Contested democracy : freedom, race, and power in American history / edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen.
Sinha, Manisha.; Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie)
2007
E178.6 .C676 2007eb
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Title Contested democracy : freedom, race, and power in American history / edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen.
ISBN 9780231511988 (electronic book)
0231511981 (electronic book)
9780231141109
0231141106
DOI https://doi.org/10.7312/sinh14110
Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 335 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.7312/sinh14110 doi
Call Number E178.6 .C676 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973
Summary "With 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. They call for careful and conscientious scholarship not only to illuminate contemporary problems but also to act as a bulwark against mythmaking in the service of cynical political ends"--Provided by publisher.
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Introduction / Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen
An alternative tradition of radicalism : Black abolitionists and the metaphor of revolution / Manisha Sinha
Isaiah Rynders and the ironies of popular democracy in antebellum New York / Tyler Anbinder
Leave of court : African American claims-making in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford / Martha S. Jones
City women : slavery and resistance in antebellum St. Louis / Martha Saxton
Free soil, free labor, and free markets : on antebellum merchant clerks and the tautologies of profit / Michael Zakim
Make "every slave free and every freeman a voter" : the African American construction of suffrage discourse in the age of emancipation / Wang Xi
Making it fit : the federal government, liberal individualism, and the American West / Melinda Lawson
Reconstructing the empire of cotton : a global story / Sven Beckert
Cuba Libre and American imperial nationalism : conflicting views of racial democracy in post-Reconstruction United States / Alessandra Lorini
Transnational solidarities : the Sacco and Vanzetti case in global perspective / Lisa McGirr
"An ironic testimony to the value of American democracy" : assimilationism and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans / Mae M. Ngai
Student protest, "law and order," and the origins of African American studies in California / Martha Biondi
Duke Ellington plays Baghdad : rethinking hard and soft power from the outside In / Penny Von Eschen
The story of American freedom before and after 9/11 / Eric Foner
Afterword: "From the archives and from the heart" / David W. Blight.

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