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Marx, Tocqueville, and race in America : the "absolute democracy" or "defiled republic"
- Title
- Marx, Tocqueville, and race in America : the "absolute democracy" or "defiled republic" / August H. Nimtz, Jr.
- Author
- Nimtz, August H.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2003.
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- Description
- xiii, 299 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 > Political and social views
- Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895 > Political and social views
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 > Political and social views
- Slavery > Political aspects > History > United States > 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Democracy > United States > History > 19th century
- United States > Race relations > Political aspects
- United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
- United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index.
- Contents
- Democracy in America : two perspectives -- The lessons of the 'most progressive nation' -- Tocqueville's America -- The judgement of recent scholarship : a balance sheet -- Toward the 'general conflagration' : theory and practice -- The 'new world view' -- Slavery, free soil and the workers movement -- Preparing for a new revolution -- 'A last card up its sleeve' : the overthrow of slavery -- Explaining the Civil War -- The new 'struggle in the press' -- From a 'constitutional' to a 'revolutionary' war -- A comradely disagreement -- The judgement of modern scholarship -- Revolutionary practice -- Marx and Engels's contribution -- A dream deferred : the failed 'attempt to reconstruct -- Democracy in America' -- Reconstruction -- Birth of a new labor movement -- Marx on race -- Overthrow of reconstruction -- Were Marx and Engels derelict -- When 'conditions' become 'ripe' -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Thomas Messer-Kruse's, the Yankee international : recent -- Adventures in gratuitous Marx-bashing -- Marx, the suspect democrat -- The Irish turn -- 'Narrow trade unionism' -- 'False emancipation of women'[?] -- Marx's 'machinations' -- About Sorge -- Whither Yankee internationalism?
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-625
- ISBN
- 0739106775 (alk. paper)
- 0739106783 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003009952
- OCLC
- 52251241
- Author
- Nimtz, August H.
- Title
- Marx, Tocqueville, and race in America : the "absolute democracy" or "defiled republic" / August H. Nimtz, Jr.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-625