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How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Rebecca Mead
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Description for How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
Paperback. Shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women. This book highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement. Num Pages: 273 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Uncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote
By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens?
In this provocative new study, Rebecca ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814757222
SKU
V9780814757222
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99-50
About Rebecca Mead
Rebecca Mead is assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University.
Reviews for How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
"How the Vote Was Won is the first comprehensive, modern history of woman suffrage in the American West. Mead shows us that virtually everything that is modern and important about the winning stages of the woman suffrage movement began in the West. This is a bold, original history that historians of the West, of women, of the United States in ... Read more