{"product_id":"democracies-in-america-keywords-for-the-19th-century-and-today-paperback","title":"Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. Berton Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGregory Laski\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsk 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemocracies in America\u003c\/em\u003e 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 (\u003cem\u003ecitizenship\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003erepresentation\u003c\/em\u003e) and paradigm-stretching (\u003cem\u003edisgust\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esham\u003c\/em\u003e). 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. Berton Emerson, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of English, Whitworth University, Gregory Laski, Civilian Associate Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eD. Berton Emerson\u003c\/em\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His writing has appeared in American Literature, \u003cem\u003eESQ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNineteenth-Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary Misfits: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies, 1830-1860\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eGregory Laski\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726587826239,"sku":"9780192871879","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ade5920af44b2dd0fcaf0ed126b75454.webp?v=1765111533","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/democracies-in-america-keywords-for-the-19th-century-and-today-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}