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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 conf

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Author

Manisha Sinha, Penny Von Eschen, Penny M. Von Eschen

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231511988

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science