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Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Hachette Book Group Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: ZK66R9Z
EAN: 9781541605121
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Zustellung: Mo, 06.07.2026
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Beschreibung
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review. ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of non-white people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom's Dominion. , prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, freedom became a weapon. With freedom as their cry, white Americans seized Native lands, championed secession, overthrew Reconstruction, questioned the New Deal, and fought against the civil rights movement. Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Freedom's Dominion. offers a radically new history of federal power, democracy, and American freedom. This history summons us today to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship, backed by a federal government that is not afraid to fight the many incarnations of the freedom to dominate.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jefferson Cowie
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 512