Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541605121ISBN-10:1541605128UPC:9781541605121Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, State & LocalSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.95Product ID:SCMXXXRPT3
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 nonwhite 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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541605121ISBN-10:1541605128UPC:9781541605121Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, African American & Black, United StatesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, State & LocalSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.95Product ID:SCMXXXRPT3
Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman Chair in History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of three other books, including Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and his work has appeared in numerous outlets including Time, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Politico. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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