Ebook {Epub PDF} Contested Democracy: Freedom Race and Power in American History by Manisha Sinha

 · With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates Editors: Manisha Sinha, Penny Von Eschen. Contested democracy: freedom, race, and power in American history. Responsibility edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen. Imprint New York: Columbia University Press, c Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and.  · With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is esse4/5(1).

Contested democracy: freedom, race, and power in American history. An Alternative Tradition of Radicalism: African American Abolitionists and the Metaphor of Revolution, by Manisha Sinha2. Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. to the Twenty First Century (Prentice Hall, ) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, ). MANISHA SINHA and PENNY VON ESCHEN. Amid the unprecedented degree of cynical manipulation of U.S. history, the ideals of American democracy, and the In , six years after the publication of Frederick Jackson Turner's Significance of the Frontier in American History, Nebraska journalist.

Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and a leading authority on the history of slavery and abolition and the Civil War and Reconstruction. She was born in India and received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the United States and in the exercise of American power abroad, these essays probe challenges to American democracy through conflicts shaped by race, slavery, gender, citizenship, political economy, immigration, law, empire, and the idea of the nation state. Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.