Radicalism In The States

Author : Richard M. Valelly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226845357
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism in the States written by Richard M. Valelly and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrated in states outside the Northeast and the South, state-level third-party radical politics has been more widespread than many realize. In the 1920s and 1930s, American political organizations strong enough to mount state-wide campaigns, and often capable of electing governors and members of Congress, emerged not only in Minnesota but in Wisconsin and Washington, in Oklahoma and Idaho, and in several other states. Richard M. Valelly treats in detail the political economy of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (1918-1944), the most successful radical, state-level party in American history. With the aid of numerous interviews of surviving organizers and participants in the party's existence, Valelly recreates the party's rise to power and subsequent decline, seeking answers to some broad, developmental questions. Why did this type of politics arise, and why did it collapse when it did? What does the party's history tell us about national political change? The answers lie, Valelly argues, in America's transition from the political economy of the 1920s to the New Deal. Combining case study and comparative state politics, he reexamines America's political economy prior to the New Deal and the scope and ironies of the New Deal's reorganization of American politics. The results compellingly support his argument that the federal government's increasing intervention in the economy profoundly transformed state politics. The interplay between national economy policy-making and federalism eventually reshaped the dynamics of interest-group politics and closed off the future of "state-level radicalism." The strength of this argument is highlighted by Valelly's cross-national comparison with Canadian politics. In vivid contrast to the fate of American movements, "province level radicalism" thrived in the Canadian political environment. In the course of analyzing one of the "supressed alternatives" of American politics, Valelly illuminates the influence of the national political economy on American political development. Radicalism in the States will interest students of economic protest, of national policy-making, of interest-group politics and party politics.

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radicalism of the American Revolution written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor - Mac to her friends and colleagues - was a biologist who had wanted nothing more out of life than to study the spawning habits of salmon. But that was before she met Brymn, the first member of the Dhryn race ever to set foot on Earth. And it was before Base was attacked, and Mac's friend and fellow scientist Dr. Emily Mamani was kidnapped by the mysterious race known as the Ro." "From that moment on everything changed for Mac, for Emily, for Brymn, for the human race, and for all the many member races of the Interspecies Union." "Now, with the alien Dhryn following an instinct-driven migratory path through the inhabited spaceways - bringing about the annihilation of sentient races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following - time is running out not only for the human race but for all life forms." "And only Mac and her disparate band of researchers - drawn from many of the races that are members of the Interspecies Union - stand any chance of solving the deadly puzzle of the Dhryn and the equally enigmatic Ro."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sidney Lens
Publisher : Schenkman Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism in America written by Sidney Lens and published by Schenkman Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seth Cotlar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931061
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Paine's America written by Seth Cotlar and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Paine’s America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s. In 1789, when the Federal Constitution was ratified, "democracy" was a controversial term that very few Americans used to describe their new political system. That changed when the French Revolution—and the wave of democratic radicalism that it touched off around the Atlantic World—inspired a growing number of Americans to imagine and advocate for a wide range of political and social reforms that they proudly called "democratic." One of the figureheads of this new international movement was Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense. Although Paine spent the 1790s in Europe, his increasingly radical political writings from that decade were wildly popular in America. A cohort of democratic printers, newspaper editors, and booksellers stoked the fires of American politics by importing a flood of information and ideas from revolutionary Europe. Inspired by what they were learning from their contemporaries around the world, the evolving democratic opposition in America pushed their fellow citizens to consider a wide range of radical ideas regarding racial equality, economic justice, cosmopolitan conceptions of citizenship, and the construction of more literally democratic polities. In Europe such ideas quickly fell victim to a counter-Revolutionary backlash that defined Painite democracy as dangerous Jacobinism, and the story was much the same in America’s late 1790s. The Democratic Party that won the national election of 1800 was, ironically, the beneficiary of this backlash; for they were able to position themselves as the advocates of a more moderate, safe vision of democracy that differentiated itself from the supposedly aristocratic Federalists to their right and the dangerously democratic Painite Jacobins to their left.

Author : Sabine von Mering
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134121458
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right-Wing Radicalism Today written by Sabine von Mering and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include: Who joins radical right parties and why? Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movement This will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism written by Staughton Lynd and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of American Radicalism written by Paul Buhle and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Brick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515602
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicals in America written by Howard Brick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes, demonstrating how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo.

Author : Christopher Lasch
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780394703671
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Radicalism in America written by Christopher Lasch and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sidney Lens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism in America written by Sidney Lens and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: