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Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.t. Kingsley - Rilegato

Malhotra, Ravi

 
9780774865760: Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.t. Kingsley
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ISBN 10: 0774865768 ISBN 13: 9780774865760
Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2021

Sinossi

Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York,y 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that followed took him north of the border where he eventually was considered by the government to be "one of the most dangerous men in Canada".

Able to Lead traces Kingsley's political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt illuminate a figure who shaped a generation of Canadian leftists during a time when it was uncommon for disabled men to lead. They examine Kingsley's endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how Kingsley's life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights.

Able to Lead brings a turbulent period in North American history to life, highlighting Kingsley's profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.

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Editore
Univ of British Columbia Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0774865768
ISBN 13 
9780774865760
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
320
Redattore
Isitt Benjamin
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