[PDF] Beyond The Revolution eBook

Author : William H Goetzmann
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0786744235

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From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan civilization. In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of America's greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another's ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. An unprecedented work of intellectual history by a master historian, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of our national culture.

Author : John B. Frantz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271042763

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The story of the American Revolution in rural Pennsylvania.

Author : Patrice L. R. Higonnet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674470613

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Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nîmes, Lyons, and Paris--one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and rescues them from recent postmodernist condescension. Patrice Higonnet documents and analyzes the radical thought and actions of leading Jacobins and their followers. He shows Jacobinism's variety and flexibility, as it emerged in the lived practices of exceptional and ordinary people in varied historical situations. He demonstrates that these proponents of individuality and individual freedom were also members of dense social networks who were driven by an overriding sense of the public good. By considering the most retrograde and the most admirable features of Jacobinism, Higonnet balances revisionist interest in ideology with a social historical emphasis on institutional change. In these pages the Terror becomes a singular tragedy rather than the whole of Jacobinism, which retains value today as an influential variety of modern politics. Higonnet argues that with the recent collapse of socialism and the general political malaise in Western democracies, Jacobinism has regained stature as a model for contemporary democrats, as well as a sober lesson on the limits of radical social legislation.

Author : Alfred Fabian Young
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875801766

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Contributors include Alfred F. Young, Gary J. Kornblith, John M. Murrin, Allan Kulikoff, Edward Countryman, Peter H. Wood, W. J. Rorabaugh, Alan Taylor, Michael Merrill, Sean Wilentz, and Cathy N. Davidson.

Author : INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence INCITE!
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822373009

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A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundation mandates. But even as funding shrinks, many activists often find it difficult to imagine movement-building outside the non-profit model. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and non-profit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the long-term consequences of what they call the "non-profit industrial complex." Drawing on their own experiences, the contributors track the history of non-profits and provide strategies to transform and work outside them. Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents a biting critique of the quietly devastating role the non-profit industrial complex plays in managing dissent. Contributors. Christine E. Ahn, Robert L. Allen, Alisa Bierria, Nicole Burrowes, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), William Cordery, Morgan Cousins, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Stephanie Guilloud, Adjoa Florência Jones de Almeida, Tiffany Lethabo King, Paul Kivel, Soniya Munshi, Ewuare Osayande, Amara H. Pérez, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, Dylan Rodríguez, Paula X. Rojas, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Sisters in Action for Power, Andrea Smith, Eric Tang, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Ije Ude, Craig Willse

Author : William H. Goetzmann
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465004954

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A magisterial chronicle of America s intellectual history by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian"

Author : Eugene R. Fingerhut
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791463710

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Essays exploring rural New York during the American Revolution.