Description |
792 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pre-revolutionary roots, 1607-1760 -- Revolution and the birth of a nation, 1760-1820 -- Questioning the nation, 1820-1860 -- Civil War and reconstruction, 1860-1877 -- Industry and reform, 1877-1912 -- Conflict and depression, 1912-1945 -- The affluent society, 1945-1966 -- Mobilization: Vietnam and the counterculture, 1964-1975 -- Contemporary dissent, 1975-present. |
Summary |
This book is an anthology that includes over 150 original songs, speeches, and letters spanning 400 years of dissent in America. These firsthand accounts by many who protested against the status quo include the work of Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Powhatan, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, Tecumseh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, African American soldiers of the Union Army, Susan B. anthony, Chief Joseph, Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, William Jennings Bryan, Mother Jones, John Muir, Socialist Party, Marcus Garvey, H.L. Mecken, Langston Hughes, Huey Long, Woody Guthrie, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, Allen Ginsberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, Betty Friedan, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, César Chávez, Theodore Kaczynski, Ralph Nader, Veterans Against the Iraq War, Cindy Sheehan, etc. |
Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- Sources.
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United States -- Social conditions -- Sources.
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Dissenters -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Democracy -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Social problems -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
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Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Social problems. (OCoLC)fst01122778
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Social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01122841
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Added Author |
Young, Ralph, 1942-
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Other Form: |
Online version: Dissent in America. New York : Pearson Education, ©2006 (OCoLC)608385100 |
ISBN |
0321442970 (alk. paper) |
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9780321442970 (alk. paper) |
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