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Dissent : the history of an American idea /
The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time: from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan in the seventeen...
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New York :
New York University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | [Paperback edition] / |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Dissent and America
- The "free aire of a new world"
- Dissent in an age of reason
- Revolution
- Discord in the new republic
- Slavery and its discontents
- Reformers and dissidents
- Expansion and conflict
- Dissent imperils the union
- A nation divides
- Liberation and suppression
- Protest and conflict in the West
- Workers of the world unite!
- The new Manifest Destiny
- Progressives and radicals
- Making the world safe for democracy
- Traditionalism collides with modernism
- A new deal for America
- The good war?
- Dissent in an age of conformity
- Civil rights: An American revolution
- Make love, not war
- Mobilization and backlash
- A new age of dissent
- The arc of dissent.