An Unfinished Battle: American Women 1848-1865 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States)
By Harriet Sigerman.
Description
The year 1848 was a year of revolution. In Europe, the German philosopher of communism Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto, the British philosopher of liberalism John Stuart Mill published The Principles of Political Economy, and a small number of communitarian socialist women in France demanded their own political rights in the midst of an uprising that overthrew the French monarchy. In the United States, several determined women in upstate New York called a convention, attended by almost three hundred women and men, which drew up a declaration modeled on the 1776 Declaration of In...
ISBN(s)
0195081102, 9780195081107
