Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy

Auteur: Volk, Kyle G. (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Montana)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
This book 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.
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This book 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.
ISBN / EAN 9780199371914
Auteur Volk, Kyle G. (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Montana)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc