A preface to synthesis

Dawley, Alan

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“…It served "to accept the very exclusion of subordinate groups from public life that is a basis for the rule of the elite." 21 Instead, Dawley recommended in "A Preface to Synthesis" (1988) an approach to social politics that would recognize the political in the private realm. The workplace, home, and other "seemingly a-political" [sic\ sites were arenas where, Dawley contended, "social forces contest for power in everyday life."…”

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“…Now, in 1988, Roll Jordan Roll was "a textbook of historical materialism" because of its treatment of slavery as the "key to a social formation whose inner contradictions are extruded through all its parts." 30 The important elements were relations of production (between planter and slave), law (between property and person) and culture ("the reciprocal demands of slave and master under paternalism.") 31 In addition to this shift in his evaluation of Genovese's impressive but flawed account of slavery, uncertainty remains as to how seriously or successfully Dawley had incorporated gender and race in this formulation.…”

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The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activist Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography

Tyrrell

2009

J. gilded age prog. era

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It would be tempting to see the late Alan Dawley as an intellectual product of the 1960s, a decade that has attracted considerable attention among historians and that shaped the political and intellectual preoccupations of a generation. To be sure, Dawley played a part in that era's social-protest movement that shaped his career as a scholar-activist. Katy Weschler Dawley spoke recently of a young man “with a purpose,” who “became committed to achieve goals of justice, civil-rights and antiwar movements.” These were indeed abiding commitments that would have made the separation of activism and scholarship difficult for any historian, and there is no doubt that Dawley was such a writer driven at the outset by political ideals.

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