Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Paperback / softback
by Jefferson Cowie
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Basic Books
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781541605121
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Basic Books
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781541605121