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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... freedom in England, a society presumably untainted by white racism. But when she began to sense its blighting presence in England as well, she moved again, in 1866, to Italy. Though this odyssey ultimately left her disconnected from ...
... freedom in England, a society presumably untainted by white racism. But when she began to sense its blighting presence in England as well, she moved again, in 1866, to Italy. Though this odyssey ultimately left her disconnected from ...
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... Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). 10. Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ''Race'' in New England, 1780–1860 ...
... Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). 10. Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ''Race'' in New England, 1780–1860 ...
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... freedom of women is the greatest revolution, not just of our own day, but of all time, since it breaks fetters which are as old as the world.'' Inspired by the soon to be crushed Revolutions of 1848, Dittmar called on German reformers ...
... freedom of women is the greatest revolution, not just of our own day, but of all time, since it breaks fetters which are as old as the world.'' Inspired by the soon to be crushed Revolutions of 1848, Dittmar called on German reformers ...
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... freedom, which also drew on the Jewish narrative of a long enslavement in Egypt and the exodus toward freedom and the Promised Land. My point here is that from the ancient Athenians and Roman republicans on to Machiavelli and ...
... freedom, which also drew on the Jewish narrative of a long enslavement in Egypt and the exodus toward freedom and the Promised Land. My point here is that from the ancient Athenians and Roman republicans on to Machiavelli and ...
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... freedom was a consequence of slavery—and it seems that it was the relatively sudden and unexpected economic dominance of African-American slavery in the colonial Chesapeake that provided the foundation for an emerging sense of white ...
... freedom was a consequence of slavery—and it seems that it was the relatively sudden and unexpected economic dominance of African-American slavery in the colonial Chesapeake that provided the foundation for an emerging sense of white ...
Inhalt
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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 |
Index | 369 |
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