The Roots of Radicalism : Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-century Social Movements.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resituating Radicalism; 2. Social Movements and the Idea of Progress; 3. The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?; 4. The Public Sphere in the Field of Power; 5. The Reluctant Counterpublic (with Michael McQuarrie); 6. Class, Place, and Industrial Revolution; 7. Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers' Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crises; 8. Classical Social Theory and the French Revolution of 1848.

9. New Social Movements of the Early Nineteenth Century10. Progress for Whom?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era--religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance--are presented as mere strands in a unified tapestry of labor and democratic mobilization. Taking aim at this flawed view of radicalism as simply the extreme end of a single dimension of progress, Craig Calhoun emphasizes the coexistence of different kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and their implications. The Roots of Radicalism reveals the.

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