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Zusatztext In this timely book, Professor Kyle G. Volk artfully explains the competing forces and shifting political coalitions in the mid-nineteenth century that ultimately constructed the modern paradigms of morality politics, majority rule, and minority rights that still govern our democratic landscape today. Informationen zum Autor Kyle G. Volk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Montana. Klappentext Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy unearths the origins of popular minority-rights politics in American history. Focusing on controversies spurred by grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, it shows how a motley array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Zusammenfassung Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy unearths the origins of popular minority-rights politics in American history. Focusing on controversies spurred by grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, it shows how a motley array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making America's First Moral Majority 2. Sunday Laws and the Problem of the Christian Republic 3. The License Question and the Perils of "Pure Democracy" 4. Mixed Marriages, Motley Schools, and the Struggle for Racial Equality 5. "Jim Crow Conveyances" and the Politics of Integrating the Public 6. America's First Wet Crusade and the Sunday Question Redux Epilogue: Making Democracy Safe for Minorities Notes Index
