How the Vote Was Won : : Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914 / / Rebecca Mead.

Uncovers how women in the West fought for the right to voteBy 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, whe...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms
  • 1 The Context of the Western Woman Suffrage Movement
  • 2 Early Western Suffragists as Organic Intellectuals
  • 3 Reconstruction, Woman Suffrage, and Territorial Politics in the West
  • 4 Suffrage and Populism in the Silver State of Colorado
  • 5 California, Woman Suffrage, and the Critical Election of 1896
  • 6 Woman Suffrage and Progressivism in the Pacific Northwest
  • 7 The Western Zephyr and the 1911 California Campaign
  • 8 The West and the Modern Suffrage Movement
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author