Young America : land, labor, and the Republican community / Mark A. Lause.
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Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | E415.7 .L37 2005 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000001950260 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-227) and index.
A Workers' Movement -- National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement -- Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association -- A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism -- The Agrarian Persuasion -- The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society -- Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution -- Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology -- The Impact of National Reform -- Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists -- Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism -- The Republican Revolution: Victory beyond and by the Ballot.
"[Lause] argues that the interest of of working people in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset -- land -- led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership . . .
The alliance of the [National Reform Association's] land reformers and radical abolitionists led unprecedented numbers to petition Congress and established the foundations of what became the new Republican Party, promising "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men." -- BOOK JACKET.
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