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Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology.

Antislavery movements --- Slavery --- Politicians --- Political activists --- History --- Political aspects --- Free Soil Party (U.S.) --- United States --- Politics and government --- Race relations --- Political aspects. --- Free Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Free Democracy

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Compromise of 1850 --- Fugitive slave law of 1850 --- Wilmot proviso, 1846 --- Political parties --- History --- United States --- Politics and government --- 1815-1861 --- Slavery --- Antislavery movements --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Political participation --- Whig Party (Great Britain) --- Free-Soil Party --- Massachusetts --- Ohio --- New York (State) --- Political parties - United States - History --- United States - Politics and government - 1841-1845 --- United States - Politics and government - 1845-1849

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In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the heart of the American canon and its evolutions--by expanding the parameters of American identity. Drawing on the critical traditions of cultural studies and new historicism, Powell invents a new critical paradigm called "historical multiculturalism." Moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric of the culture wars, Powell grounds his multicultural conception of American identity in careful historical analysis. Ruthless Democracy extends the cultural and geographical boundaries of the American Renaissance beyond the northeast to Indian Territory, Alta California, and the transnational sphere that Powell calls the American Diaspora. Arguing for the inclusion of new works, Powell envisions the canon of the American Renaissance as a fluid dialogue of disparate cultural voices.

American literature --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Democracy in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Literature and society --- Minorities in literature. --- Minorities --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Abolition. --- Aesthetics. --- American: colonization. --- Anthropology. --- Beaver, Harold. --- Bercovitch, Sacvan. --- Brown, Charles. --- Calhoun, John C. --- Capitalism. --- Cherokee Phoenix. --- Cherokee. --- Colonization. --- Cultural Studies. --- Democracy. --- Digger Indians. --- Disability. --- Doctrine of Discovery. --- Domesticity. --- Economy. --- Feminism. --- Forgetting. --- Free Soil Movement. --- Garrison, William Lloyd. --- Gleiter, Karin. --- Hermeneutics. --- Hybridity. --- Ideology. --- Indian Removal Act. --- Industrial Revolution. --- Jarvis, Edward. --- Jefferson, Thomas. --- Kinshasa, Kwando Μ. --- Know-Nothings. --- Leslie, Joshua. --- Lubiano, Wahneema. --- Masculinity. --- Mexican-American War. --- Minstrelsy. --- Miscegenation. --- Monoculturalism. --- Nationalism. --- Nativism. --- Naumkeag Indians. --- Owens, Louis. --- Philosophy. --- Postnationalism. --- Queerness. --- Radical democracy. --- Roberts, Joseph Jenkins. --- Ruthless democracy. --- Seneca Falls Convention. --- Sentimental Imperialism. --- Stowe, Calvin.

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This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a major revision of the nineteenth-century U.S. canon and its historical contexts. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and building on an innovative interpretation of poetry's cultural role, Ambassadors of Culture brings together scattered writings from the borderlands of California and the Southwest as well as the cosmopolitan exile centers of New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. It reads these productions in light of broader patterns of relations between the U.S. and Latin America, moving from the fraternal rhetoric of the Monroe Doctrine through the expansionist crisis of 1848 to the proto-imperialist 1880s. It shows how ''ambassadors of culture'' such as Whitman, Longfellow, and Bryant propagated ideas about Latin America and Latinos through their translations, travel writings, and poems. In addition to these well-known figures and their counterparts in the work of nation-building in Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America, this book also introduces unremembered women writers and local poets writing in both Spanish and English. In telling the almost forgotten early history of travels and translations between U.S. and Latin American writers, Gruesz shows that Anglo and Latino traditions in the New World were, from the beginning, deeply intertwined and mutually necessary.

Hispanic American literature (Spanish) --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Latin America --- Relations --- Spanish literature --- Anzaldúa, Gloria. --- Augier, Angel. --- Bennett, Paula B. --- Brodhead, Richard H. --- Bryant, William Cullen. --- Catholicism: defense of. --- Clay, Henry. --- Cortés, Hernán. --- Ellert, Elizabeth. --- Espronceda, José de. --- Fliegelman, Jay. --- Free Soil Party. --- Gustafson, Zadel Barnes. --- Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. --- Hispanophilia in United States. --- Iturbide, Agustin de. --- Jefferson, Thomas. --- Kanellos, Nicolás. --- Kennedy, James. --- Lincoln, Abraham. --- Martell, Helvetia. --- Matthiessen, F. O. --- Mignolo, Walter. --- Mississippi River. --- Norton, Anne. --- Orientalism. --- Piñeyro, Enrique. --- abolitionism. --- ballad form. --- captivity narratives. --- del Monte, Domingo. --- intellectuals. --- public sphere. --- Literatur. --- Letterkunde. --- Literatur --- Hispanos --- Geschichte --- International relations. --- American literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Chicanos --- Mexican Americans --- Ethnology --- Lateinamerika --- Gedichte und Erzählungen 1930 - 1980 --- Oviedo, José Miguel --- 1982 --- Hispanos. --- USA. --- Lateinamerika. --- USA --- United States. --- Latin America. --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Gedichte und Erzählungen 1930 - 1980 --- Oviedo, José Miguel --- Amerik --- Америк --- Amerikiĭn Nėgdsėn Uls --- Америкийн Нэгдсэн Улс --- ANU --- АНУ --- Северо-Американские Штаты --- Северо-Американские Соединенные Штаты --- Сѣверо-Американскіе Соединенные Штаты --- Соединенные Штаты Америки --- Соединенные Штаты Северной Америки --- Соединенные Штаты Сѣверной Америки --- США --- ЗДА --- Зьєднані Держави Америки --- Landesgeschichte --- Regionalgeschichte --- Ortsgeschichte --- Zeitgeschichte --- Geschichtsphilosophie --- Vergangenheit --- Hispanics --- Hispanoamerikaner --- Latinos --- Latinx --- Latino --- Hispano --- Latina --- Lateinamerikaner --- Hispanoamerika --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattnė --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- SUA --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika