The Yankee International

Author : Timothy Messer-Kruse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863374

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The Yankee International by Timothy Messer-Kruse Pdf

Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA), the first international socialist organization. He analyzes what attracted American reformers--many of them veterans of antebellum crusades for abolition, women's rights, and other radical causes--to the IWA, how their presence affected the course of the American Left, and why they were ultimately purged from the IWA by their orthodox Marxist comrades. Messer-Kruse explores the ideology and activities of the Yankee Internationalists, tracing the evolution of antebellum American reformers' thinking on the question of wage labor and illuminating the beginnings of a broad labor reform coalition in the early years of Reconstruction. He shows how American reformers' priority of racial and sexual equality clashed with their Marxist partners' strategy of infiltrating trade unions. Ultimately, he argues, Marxist demands for party discipline and ideological unity proved incompatible with the Yankees' native republicanism. With the expulsion of Yankee reformers from the IWA in 1871, American Marxism was divorced from the American reform tradition.

Author : Daniel J. Flynn
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307409867

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A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn Pdf

From Communes to the Clintons Why does Hillary Clinton crusade for government-provided health care for every American, for the redistribution of wealth, and for child rearing to become a collective obligation? Why does Al Gore say that it’s okay to “over-represent” the dangers of global warming in order to sell Americans on his draconian solutions? Why does Michael Moore call religion a device to manipulate “gullible” Americans? Where did these radical ideas come from? And how did they enter the mainstream discourse? In this groundbreaking and compelling new book, Daniel J. Flynn uncovers the surprising origins of today’s Left. The first work of its kind, A Conservative History of the American Left tells the story of this remarkably resilient extreme movement–one that came to America’s shores with the earliest settlers. Flynn reveals a history that leftists themselves ignore, whitewash, or obscure. Partly the Left’s amnesia is convenient: Who wouldn’t want to forget an ugly history that includes eugenics, racism, violence, and sheer quackery? Partly it is self-aggrandizing: Bold schemes sound much more innovative when you refuse to acknowledge that they have been tried–and have failed–many times before. And partly it is unavoidable: The Left is so preoccupied with its triumphal future that it doesn’t pause to learn from its past mistakes. So it goes that would-be revolutionaries have repeatedly failed to recognize the one troubling obstacle to their grandiose visions: reality. In unfolding this history, Flynn presents a page-turning narrative filled with colorful, fascinating characters–progressives and populists, radicals and reformers, socialists and SDSers, and leftists of every other stripe. There is the rags-to-riches Welsh industrialist who brought his utopian vision to America–one in which private property, religion, and marriage represented “the most monstrous evils”–and gained audiences with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison. There is the wife-swapping Bible thumper who nominated Jesus Christ for president. There is the playboy adventurer whose worshipful accounts of Soviet Russia lured many American liberals to Communism. There is the daughter of privilege turned violent antiwar activist who lost her life to a bomb she had intended to use against American soldiers. There are fanatics and free spirits, perverts and puritans, entrepreneurs and altruists, and many more beyond. A Conservative History of the American Left is a gripping chronicle of the radical visionaries who have relentlessly pursued their lofty ambitions to remake society. Ultimately, Flynn shows the destructiveness that comes from this undying pursuit of dreams that are utterly unattainable.

Author : Harvey R. Neptune
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807868116

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Caliban and the Yankees by Harvey R. Neptune Pdf

In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island's history. The U.S. military occupation between 1941 and 1947 came at the same time that Trinidadian nationalist politics sought to project an image of a distinct, independent, and particularly un-British cultural landscape. The American intervention, Neptune shows, contributed to a tempestuous scene as Trinidadians deliberately engaged Yankee personnel, paychecks, and practices flooding the island. He explores the military-based economy, relationships between U.S. servicemen and Trinidadian women, and the influence of American culture on local music (especially calypso), fashion, labor practices, and everyday racial politics. Tracing the debates about change among ordinary and privileged Trinidadians, he argues that it was the poor, the women, and the youth who found the most utility in and moved most avidly to make something new out of the American presence. Neptune also places this history of Trinidad's modern times into a wider Caribbean and Latin American perspective, highlighting how Caribbean peoples sometimes wield "America" and "American ways" as part of their localized struggles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5114348

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The George Washington journal of international law and econo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Moore,Margaret Bruce,Grete Birtwistle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136393808

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International Retail Marketing by Christopher Moore,Margaret Bruce,Grete Birtwistle Pdf

International Retail Marketing combines a broad thematic overview of the key issues concerning international retail marketing with a series of incisive cases and examples of industry practice from markedly different sectors as fashion, food and healthcare. The authors provide an accessible and wide-ranging outline of the fundamentals of the subject, such as trends in retail marketing, strategy and logistics, and buying and merchandise management within an international perspective. Contributions from Europe, North America and Asia show the dynamics affecting international retailing through a variety of case. Key discussion points are highlighted throughout the text, giving a hands-on focus.

Author : Soma Marik
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608467303

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Revolutionary Democracy by Soma Marik Pdf

In this wide-ranging and insightful work, Soma Marik defends the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, arguing against many of its detractors that the early communist regime was centrally concerned with both the liberation of women and the expansion of democracy. Soma Marik teaches Women's Studies and History at Jadavpur University.

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317945383

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From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order by Paul Buhle Pdf

This collection brings together the labor and cultural studies of the author over the past 20 years, during which time the fields of social history, women's history, ethnic studies, public history, and oral history have all been transformed. The essays, some rewritten or newly available and the rest original to this volume, offer important examples of historical analysis, comment on changing scholarly perceptions, and the public uses of history. By drawing upon his own research in popular culture, Yiddish periodicals, interracial unionism, oral history and a variety of other sources, the author demonstrates how the field of labor specialists has become the domain of social historians exploring a rich American past.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Communism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018388768

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The First Conference of the Latin American Solidarity Organization, July 28-August 5, 1967 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Pdf

Author : Russ Doyle
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669855613

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Fresh Yankee and Men She Knew by Russ Doyle Pdf

Fresh Yankee Is about Standardbred racehorse and the individual men involved in her fascinating journey to great stardom as she becomes the first Standardbred horse to win a million dollars in prize money in North America. The book provides intriguing entertainment as the author pulls back the curtains for a glimpse into the challenging, and often passionate, interpersonal relationships among the men who owned, trained and drove Fresh Yankee. Readers will have a ringside seat as the bidding to purchase the immature Fresh Yankee takes place, and her life towards development begins. Those who are racehorse enthusiasts interested in bloodlines, breeding, care and training, as well as, historians interested in family histories and animal lovers will find great satisfaction in what the author desires to impart.

Author : Glenn Stout,Publications International Ltd. Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1412714559

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Yesterday and Today New York Yankees by Glenn Stout,Publications International Ltd. Staff Pdf

The greatest Yankee players, the greatest Yankee teams, and the greatest Yankee moments--this book describes them all in a way that will certainly thrill every Yankee fan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Banks and banking, International
ISBN : UOM:35128001947504

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International Financing Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julio Moreno
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854786

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Yankee Don't Go Home! by Julio Moreno Pdf

In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112110982615

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813523192

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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873-1880 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pdf

National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880 is the third of six planned volumes of TheSelected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause of woman suffrage. The third volume of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opens while woman suffragists await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases testing whether the Constitution recognized women as voters within the terms of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. At its close they are pursuing their own amendment to the Constitution and pressing the presidential candidates of 1880 to speak in its favor. Through their letters, speeches, articles, and diaries, the volume recounts the national careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as popular lecturers, their work with members of Congress to expand women's rights, their protests during the Centennial Year of 1876, and the launch that same year of their campaign for a Sixteenth Amendment.

Author : Janine Giordano Drake
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197614303

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The Gospel of Church by Janine Giordano Drake Pdf

"From the end of the Civil War until the early twentieth century, Anglo, immigrant, and African American settlers were moving north and west faster than ministers within the major denominations could follow them with churches. In 1890, Northern Methodists, the largest Protestant denomination, only claimed 3.5 percent of the American population. Roman Catholics claimed 9.9 percent, and African American Baptists, the largest Black denomination, claimed only 18 percent of the African American population. In total, under 30 percent of Americans went to church on a weekly basis. While African American churches served a relatively larger role within their communities, the major white denominations played a minor role in the lives of the working poor. Clergymen like Dwight Moody reflected, "The gulf between the churches and the mases is growing deeper, wider and darker every hour." Home missionaries like Josiah Strong warned, "Few appreciate how we have become a non-churchgoing-people." Strong was right. In large fractions of the country, especially mining and industrial centers in the West, a simple lack of church edifices and long-term ministers to fundraise for them gave way to a vacuum of Protestant, denominational authority. In part, this disconnect between the number of churches and the size of the population was a result of culturally dislocated migrants. In 1890, more than 9 million Americans were foreign-born, and only a small fraction of those Americans had any familiarity with Anglo-Protestant traditions. They were joined by another 1 million African Americans migrants from the South to northern industrial centers. But this was only one of many reasons the poor did not go to church with the wealthy. While middle-class families paid lip service to the importance of building capacious churches, their own policies and practices reinforced the class system. As one minister reflected in 1887, "The working men are largely estranged from the Protestant religion. Old churches standing in the midst of crowded districts are continually abandoned because they do not reach the workingmen." Meanwhile, he continued, "Go into an ordinary church on Sunday morning and you see lawyers, physicians, merchants and business men with their families [-]you see teachers, salesmen, and clerks, and a certain proportion of educated mechanics, but the workingman and his household are not there." As the working-classes swelled with the expansion of American factories, ordained Protestant ministers served an ever-dwindling proportion of the country"--