Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left (People's History)

Lause, Mark A.

ISBN 10: 0745337597 / ISBN 13: 9780745337593

Published by Pluto Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left (People's History)
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745337597
• ISBN 13: 9780745337593
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive history of pre–Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals, and militant abolitionists who paved the way to the failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
            Offering new and fascinating insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown socialist movement in America—from Thomas Paine’s revolution to Robert Owen’s utopianism, and from Thomas Skidmore’s agrarianism to George Henry Evans’s industrial workers’ reforms—Long Road to Harpers Ferry captures the spirit of the times. Showing how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship, the book offers a fascinating historical background to help us understand the rise of radicalism in the United States today.

About the Author

Mark Lause is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati and the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West.