Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy

Autor

Kyle G. Volk

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

312

ISBN

9780190609498

Categorii

Istorie Științe Umaniste Stiinte Istorie Regionala Si Nationala Istoria Americii

Descriere

Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy unearths the origins of popular minority-rights politics in American history. Focusing on controversies spurred by grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, it shows how a motley array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact.