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The pursuit of equality in American history

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The demand for equality has given the cutting edge to nearly every important movement of social protest in American history. Together with individual liberty, equality is the central moral and ideological commitment of the American Republic, the prime reason given in the Declaration of Independence for the nation's right to independent existence. The author seeks the meanings attached to the idea of equality by the people who have influenced policy and shaped the discussion from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. He identifies certain conceptual categories, or levels of awareness: equality before the law, equality of political power, equality of religion and conscience, equality of opportunity, equality of sex, and equality of esteem. The emergence and interplay of these themes are then examines in the great historic controversies over two centuries: the American revolution itself, agrarian and commercial rivalries, economic advance and banking in the Jacksonian era, slavery and race, the rise of trusts and the decline of equality of opportunity, and the complex issues of religion, immigration, and assimilation. -- from Book Jacket.

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English
Pages
380

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Cover of: The pursuit of equality in American history
The pursuit of equality in American history
1993, University of California Press
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: The pursuit of equality in American history
The pursuit of equality in American history
1979, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: The pursuit of equality in American history
The pursuit of equality in American history
1978, University of California Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Berkeley
Series
Jefferson memorial lectures

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
323.4/0973
Library of Congress
KF4764 .P64

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 380 p. ;
Number of pages
380

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4888742M
Internet Archive
pursuitofequalit00pole
ISBN 10
0520032861
LCCN
76020020
OCLC/WorldCat
3740197
Library Thing
3616109
Goodreads
4545708

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