The comparative imagination : on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements
by
 
Fredrickson, George M., 1934-

Title
The comparative imagination : on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements

Author
Fredrickson, George M., 1934-

ISBN
9780520209961

Personal Author
Fredrickson, George M., 1934-

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.

Physical Description
241 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
1. The Status of Comparative History (1980) -- 2. The Frontier of South African and American History -- 3. From Exceptionalism of Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History -- 4. Planters, Junkers, and Pomeschiki -- 5. Understanding Racism: Reflections of a Comparative Historian -- 6. Race and Empire in Liberal Thought: The Legacy of Tocqueville -- 7. Black-White Relations since Emancipation: The Search for a Comparative Perspective -- 8. Reform and Revolution in American and South African Freedom Struggles -- 9. Prophets of Black Liberation -- 10. Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy: The American Civil Rights Movement and the South African Defiance Campaigns -- 11. From Black Power to Black Consciousness.

Subject Term
Racism -- United States -- History.
 
Racism -- South Africa -- History.
 
Black nationalism -- United States -- History.
 
Black nationalism -- South Africa -- History.
 
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
 
Blacks -- Civil rights -- South Africa -- History.

Geographic Term
United States -- Race relations.
 
South Africa -- Race relations.


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