Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher: University of Michigan Library
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. by Wendell Phillips.
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. by Wendell Phillips.
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781418116354
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past
Author: A J AiséirithePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807164054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884. Instead he embraced the most incendiary causes of his era and became a radical advocate for abolitionism and reform. Only William Lloyd Garrison rivaled Phillips’s importance to the antislavery and reform movements, and no one equaled his eloquence or intellectual depth. His presence on the lecture circuit brought him great celebrity both in America and in Europe and helped ensure that his reputation as an advocate for social justice extended for generations after his death. In Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past, the world’s leading Phillips scholars explore the themes and ideas that animated this activist and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips’s sustained role in Native American rights and the labor movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature. In this collection, Phillips’s views on matters related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class serve as a lens through which the contributors examine crucial social justice questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of subjects that emerged during Phillips’s career, from the effectiveness of agitation, the dilemmas of democratic politics, and antislavery constitutional theory, to religion, violence, interracial friendships, women’s rights, Native American rights, labor rights, and historical memory, these essays offer a portrait of a man whose deep sense of fairness and justice shaped the course of American history.
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Author: Wendell PhillipsThe Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States
Author: Carola DietzePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786637197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
Terrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with analysis of larger issues in social and political history, the author argues that the dissemination of news about terrorist violence was at the core of a strategy that aimed for political impact on rulers as well as the general public. Dietze's lucid account also reveals how the spread of knowledge about terrorist acts was, from the outset, a transatlantic process. Two incidents form the book's centerpiece. The first is the failed attempt to assassinate French Emperor Napoléon III by Felice Orsini in 1858, in an act intended to achieve Italian unity and democracy. The second case study offers a new reading of John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, as a decisive moment in the abolitionist struggle and occurrences leading to the American Civil War. Three further examples from Germany, Russia, and the US are scrutinized to trace the development of the tactic by first imitators. With their acts of violence, the "invention" of terrorism was completed. Terrorism has existed as a tactic since then and has essentially only been adapted through the use of new technologies and methods.