Race and Liberty in America - The Essential Reader

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Bean is professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 and Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration. Klappentext The history of civil rights in the United States is usually analyzed and interpreted through the lenses of modern conservatism and progressive liberalism. In Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader , author Jonathan Bean argues that the historical record does not conveniently fit into either of these categories and that knowledge of the American classical liberal tradition is required to gain a more accurate understanding of the past, present, and future of civil liberties in Zusammenfassung Assembling and contextualizing classic documents, from the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this title demonstrates that classical liberalism differs from progressive liberalism in emphasizing individual freedom, Christianity, the racial neutrality of the Constitution, and free-market capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Bean, Jonathan J. Bean
• Assisted by: Jonathan J. Bean (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2009
• EAN: 9780813192314
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-9231-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Independent Studies in Politic; Independent Studies in Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education