Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of EmancipationKathryn Kish Sklar, James Brewer Stewart Yale University Press, 01.01.2007 - 385 Seiten Robert Dahl, one of the world's most influential and respected political scientists, has spent a lifetime exploring the institutions and practices of democracy in such landmark books as Who Governs?, On Democracy, and How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Here, Dahl looks at the fundamental issue of equality and how and why governments have fallen short of their democratic ideals. At the centre of the book is the question of whether the goal of political equality is so far beyond our human limits that it should be abandoned in favour of more attainable ends, or if there are ways to realistically address and reduce inequities. Though complete equality is unattainable, Dahl argues that strides toward that ideal are both desirable and feasible. He shows the remarkable shift in recent centuries toward democracy and political equality the world over. He explores the growth of democratic institutions, the expansion of citizenship, and the various obstacles that stand in the way of gains in political equality. Dahl also looks at the motives, particularly those of emotion and reason, that play such a crucial role in the struggle for equality. In conclusion, Dahl assesses the contemporary political landscape in the United States. He looks at the likelihood of political inequality increasing, and poses one scenario in which Americans grow more unequal in their influence over their government. The counter scenario foresees a cultural shift in which citizens, rejecting what Dahl calls 'competitive consumerism', invest time and energy in civic action and work to reduce the inequality that now exists among Americans. |
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... first historical movements for human rights, we are immensely grateful to Yale University Press for engaging in this joint publication venture. The Gilder Lehrman Center is supported by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, generous Yale ...
... first historical movements for human rights, we are immensely grateful to Yale University Press for engaging in this joint publication venture. The Gilder Lehrman Center is supported by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, generous Yale ...
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... first federal census in 1790 listed no slaves in Massachusetts ) , formal eman- cipation there was gradual and slow . In New England a series of court deci- sions and state statutes began to abolish slavery in 1780 , but the process did ...
... first federal census in 1790 listed no slaves in Massachusetts ) , formal eman- cipation there was gradual and slow . In New England a series of court deci- sions and state statutes began to abolish slavery in 1780 , but the process did ...
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... First Wave Feminism , ” Nancy Hewitt focuses on a single region , the city of Rochester , New York , and its immediate environs in the 1840s . The extraordinary community of re- formers living there fervently embraced abolitionist ...
... First Wave Feminism , ” Nancy Hewitt focuses on a single region , the city of Rochester , New York , and its immediate environs in the 1840s . The extraordinary community of re- formers living there fervently embraced abolitionist ...
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... First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1998 ) ; and Stuart B. Schwartz , ed . , Tropical Babylons : Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World , 1450–1680 ( Chapel Hill : University ...
... First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1998 ) ; and Stuart B. Schwartz , ed . , Tropical Babylons : Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World , 1450–1680 ( Chapel Hill : University ...
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... first gradual emancipation act.10 In some town squares audiences listened to the words of the Declaration of Independence precisely one year after the amazingly coincidental deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson , both of whom had ...
... first gradual emancipation act.10 In some town squares audiences listened to the words of the Declaration of Independence precisely one year after the amazingly coincidental deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson , both of whom had ...
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The Impact of Antislavery on French German and British Feminism | 55 |
The Transatlantic Activism of AfricanAmerican Women Abolitionists | 141 |
Transatlantic Influences on the Emergence of Womens Rights in the United States | 209 |
Transcultural Activism Against Slavery by AfricanAmerican Women | 297 |
List of Contributors | 367 |
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