Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Name: Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
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ISBN: 9780226090863

ISBN-10: 0226090868

ISBN-13: 9780226090863

Edition: 2012

Authors: Craig Calhoun

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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 erareligious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperanceare 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 Radicalismreveals the importance of radicalism's links to preindustrial culture and attachments to place and local…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Resituating Radicalism



Social Movements and the Idea of Progress



The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?



The Public Sphere in the Field of Power



The Reluctant Counterpublic (with Michael McQuarrie)



Class, Place, and Industrial Revolution



Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers' Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crises



Classical Social Theory and the French Revolution of 1848



New Social Movements of the Early Nineteenth Century



Progress for Whom?


Notes


Bibliography


Index