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OverviewAsk someone their thoughts about ""democracy"" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, ""democracy"" gets wielded in so many divergent directions as to be rendered nearly incoherent. Democracies in America reminds us that this reality is nothing new. Focusing on the various meanings of ""democracy"" that circulated in the long nineteenth century, the book collects twenty-five essays, each taking up a keyword in the language we use to talk about democracy. Penned by a group of diverse intellectuals, the entries tackle terms both commonplace (citizenship and representation) and paradigm-stretching (disgust and sham). The essays thus consider the relationship between ""America"" and ""democracy"" from multiple disciplinary angles and from different moments in a major historical period-amidst the vitality of the revolutionary epoch, in the contentious lead-up to the Civil War, and through the triumphs and failures of Reconstruction and the early reforms of the Progressive Era-while making both forward and backward glances in time.The book frames its keywords around a series of enduring democratic dilemmas and questions, and provides extensive resources for further study. Ultimately the volume cultivates, for students and teachers in classrooms, as well as citizens in libraries and cafés, a language to deliberate about the possibilities and problems of democracy in America. Full Product DetailsAuthor: D. Berton Emerson (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Whitworth University) , Gregory Laski (Civilian Associate Professor of English, Civilian Associate Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9780192871879ISBN 10: 0192871870 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 03 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsLouise Dubé: Foreword Acknowledgements About the Editors and Contributors D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski: Democracies in America: A User's Guide I. Preamble 1: Danielle Allen: Democracy vs. Republic 2: Kyle G. Volk: Personal Liberty 3: Edlie Wong: Equality 4: James Sanders: Scale (or, Democracy in las Américas) II. Institutions and Arrangements 5: Jack Jackson: Constitution 6: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon: Representation 7: Padraig Riley: Citizenship 8: Ariel Elizabeth Seay-Howard: Anti-Black Violence 9: David Gold: Women's Suffrage 10: Sandra M. Gustafson: The Town Hall Meeting III. Feelings, Attitudes, and Interdependence 11: Christopher Castiglia: Belief 12: Mark Schmeller: Public Opinion 13: Vincent Lloyd: Charisma 14: John Funchion: Partisan 15: Jason Frank: Disgust 16: Jean Ferguson Carr: Moderation 17: Michelle Sizemore: Comfort IV. Ambitions and Distortions 18: Dana D. Nelson: The Commons 19: Angélica María Bernal: Tyranny 20: Derrick Spires: Sham 21: Tess Chakkalakal: Disfranchisement 22: Russ Castronovo: Security 23: Alaina E. Roberts: Settlement 24: William Duffy and John Pell: Doubt 25: Nancy Rosenblum: Neighbors Further Reading and Additional ResourcesReviewsEngaging, conversational, tangible and accessible for readers. * , Center for PoliticsPolitics is Everything Podcast * Assembling a diverse array of humanists and social scientists, Emerson and Laski have produced an impressive volume that refines key terms related to democracy in the nineteenth century. Defining concepts from tyranny, disfranchisement, and moderation to equality, citizenship, and public opinion, Democracies in America helps us better understand the struggles the United States continues to face in the 2020s. * Keri Leigh Merritt, Author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slaveryin the Antebellum South * The moral and political topography of the United States is rich, varied, and intricate. This volume of key terms is an extraordinary guide through the thicket of American democratic culture. In moving through the vocabulary one discovers more than words—one discovers a way of living, defined as much by common aspirations as by deep differences. Democracies in America is a civic lesson born from what I can only describe as civic affection. An essential text! * Melvin Rogers, Department of Political Science, Brown University * This elegant and timely volume explores the historical roots of our current political moment, anchoring the present in the past to open up meaningful conversations about what democratic government means to us today. The essays are engaging, accessible, and challenging. It is a remarkable combination and a remarkable read. * Laura F. Edwards, Department of History, Princeton University * Democracies in America offers a powerful challenge as well as resources to meet it. In the years leading up to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, observers the world over discussed how little Americans agree about goals, values, and even about facts. As dissension intensifies, ordinary people (including those who normally declare a lack of interest in politics) see the need to do something, after witnessing not only the violence at the Capitol but also claims that it was a simple 'dust up.' Bringing together rigorous investigations of 25 keywords, editors Bert Emerson and Greg Laski have done a tremendous service. After all, 'language is a crucial, if often neglected, component of civics education.' * Koritha Mitchell, Department of English, Ohio State University * Engaging, conversational, tangible and accessible for readers. * , Center for PoliticsPolitics is Everything Podcast * Assembling a diverse array of humanists and social scientists, Emerson and Laski have produced an impressive volume that refines key terms related to democracy in the nineteenth century. Defining concepts from tyranny, disfranchisement, and moderation to equality, citizenship, and public opinion, Democracies in America helps us better understand the struggles the United States continues to face in the 2020s. * Keri Leigh Merritt, Author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slaveryin the Antebellum South * The moral and political topography of the United States is rich, varied, and intricate. This volume of key terms is an extraordinary guide through the thicket of American democratic culture. In moving through the vocabulary one discovers more than words-one discovers a way of living, defined as much by common aspirations as by deep differences. Democracies in America is a civic lesson born from what I can only describe as civic affection. An essential text! * Melvin Rogers, Department of Political Science, Brown University * This elegant and timely volume explores the historical roots of our current political moment, anchoring the present in the past to open up meaningful conversations about what democratic government means to us today. The essays are engaging, accessible, and challenging. It is a remarkable combination and a remarkable read. * Laura F. Edwards, Department of History, Princeton University * Democracies in America offers a powerful challenge as well as resources to meet it. In the years leading up to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, observers the world over discussed how little Americans agree about goals, values, and even about facts. As dissension intensifies, ordinary people (including those who normally declare a lack of interest in politics) see the need to do something, after witnessing not only the violence at the Capitol but also claims that it was a simple 'dust up.' Bringing together rigorous investigations of 25 keywords, editors Bert Emerson and Greg Laski have done a tremendous service. After all, 'language is a crucial, if often neglected, component of civics education.' * Koritha Mitchell, Department of English, Ohio State University * Assembling a diverse array of humanists and social scientists, Emerson and Laski have produced an impressive volume that refines key terms related to democracy in the nineteenth century. Defining concepts from tyranny, disfranchisement, and moderation to equality, citizenship, and public opinion, Democracies in America helps us better understand the struggles the United States continues to face in the 2020s. * Keri Leigh Merritt, Author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slaveryin the Antebellum South * The moral and political topography of the United States is rich, varied, and intricate. This volume of key terms is an extraordinary guide through the thicket of American democratic culture. In moving through the vocabulary one discovers more than words-one discovers a way of living, defined as much by common aspirations as by deep differences. Democracies in America is a civic lesson born from what I can only describe as civic affection. An essential text! * Melvin Rogers, Department of Political Science, Brown University * This elegant and timely volume explores the historical roots of our current political moment, anchoring the present in the past to open up meaningful conversations about what democratic government means to us today. The essays are engaging, accessible, and challenging. It is a remarkable combination and a remarkable read. * Laura F. Edwards, Department of History, Princeton University * Democracies in America offers a powerful challenge as well as resources to meet it. In the years leading up to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, observers the world over discussed how little Americans agree about goals, values, and even about facts. As dissension intensifies, ordinary people (including those who normally declare a lack of interest in politics) see the need to do something, after witnessing not only the violence at the Capitol but also claims that it was a simple 'dust up.' Bringing together rigorous investigations of 25 keywords, editors Bert Emerson and Greg Laski have done a tremendous service. After all, 'language is a crucial, if often neglected, component of civics education.' * Koritha Mitchell, Department of English, Ohio State University * Author InformationD. Berton Emerson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His writing has appeared in American Literature, ESQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has participated at various levels with the work of the Commission on Democratic Citizenship, sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is currently working on a book manuscript titled American Literary Misfits: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies, 1830-1860. Gregory Laski is the author of Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery (OUP 2017), which won the American Literature Association's 2019 Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. Formerly a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, he is currently a civilian associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy, where he co-founded the American Studies program. He was a Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library in 2021-22 and is at work on an intellectual history of revenge in the Reconstruction era. He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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