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The Roots of Radicalism - Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements (Paperback)
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The Roots of Radicalism - Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements (Paperback)
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The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century
has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social
change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious,
political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance - are
presented as mere strands in a unified tapestry of labor and
democratic mobilization. Taking aim at this flawed view of
radicalism as simply the extreme end of a single dimension of
progress, Craig Calhoun emphasizes the coexistence of different
kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and their implications. "The
Roots of Radicalism" reveals the importance of radicalism's links
to pre-industrial culture and attachments to place and local
communities, as well as the ways in which journalists who had been
pushed out of "respectable" politics connected to artisans and
other workers. Calhoun shows how much public recognition mattered
to radical movements and how religious, cultural, and directly
political - as well as economic - concerns motivated people to join
up. Reflecting two decades of research into social movement theory
and the history of protest, "The Roots of Radicalism" offers
compelling insights into the past that can tell us much about the
present, from American right-wing populism to democratic upheavals
in North Africa.
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