Young America : land, labor, and the Republican community / Mark A. Lause.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lause, Mark A. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Subjects:	National Reform Association (U.S.) > History > 19th century. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History > 19th century. National Reform Association (U.S. : 1864- ) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) To 1899 Land reform > United States > History > 19th century. Working class > Political activity > United States > History > 19th century. Labor movement > United States > History > 19th century. Social movements > United States > History > 19th century. Radicalism > United States > History > 19th century. HISTORY > United States > 19th Century. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Labor movement Land reform Politics and government Radicalism Social conditions Social movements Working class > Political activity United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861. United States > Social conditions > To 1865. United States History
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Table of Contents:

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1. A WORKERS' MOVEMENT
1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement
2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association
3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism
Illustrations follow page 46
PART 2. THE AGRARIAN PERSUASION
4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society
5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology
PART 3. THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL REFORM
7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists
8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism
9. The Republican Revolution: Victories beyond and by the Ballot
Conclusion
Appendix A: Land Reform, Cooperationist, and Socialist Activities, 1844-52
Appendix B: The National Industrial Congresses
Appendix C: New England Regional Associations
Appendix D: National Reform Songs and PoemsNotes
Index

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