The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States - Brossura

Keyssar, Alexander

 
9780465029693: The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

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A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary factors for delaying such rights have been class tension and conflict. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Alexander Keyssar is Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (A New York Times Notable Book for 1986) and has written essays and reviews for The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, The New Republic, and a host of other popular and academic publications.


Alexander Keyssar is Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University.

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9780465005024: The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

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ISBN 10:  0465005020 ISBN 13:  9780465005024
Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2009
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