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Hahn, Steven was born on July 18, 1951 in New York City.
( This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in th...)
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework--looking out from slavery--to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy.
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(Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery...)
Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous firs....
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(Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture follow...)
Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new class of merchants-landlords, and rising tensions between town and countryside--and how their resentments fueld the Populist movement at the end of the 19th century. For this updated edition, Hahn will add new material to discuss how the book has stood up since it was published over twenty years ago, how the arguments and questions were received, and what influence they may have had on scholarship. He will also consider what has happened to historical interest in Populism, poor white people and populist politics, as well as why he thinks it likely that interest may revive and what sort of questions and arguments may drive it.
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Hahn, Steven was born on July 18, 1951 in New York City.
Bachelor, University Rochester, 1973. Master of Arts in History, Yale University, 1975. Master of Philosophy. in History, Yale University, 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy in History, Yale University, 1979.
Lecturer Yale College, 1976, 1979. Assistant professor history University Delaware, 1979—1981, University California, San Diego, 1981—1983, associate professor history, 1983—1987, professor history, 1987—1998, Northwestern University, 1998—2003. Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols professor history University Pennsylvania, since 2003.
(In the aftermath of civil war and emancipation, Southerne...)
( This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in th...)
(Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture follow...)
(Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery...)