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PublisherBasic Books

ISBN-101541672801

ISBN-139781541672802

eBay Product ID (ePID)5057280671

Product Key Features

Book TitleFreedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : a Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Civil Rights, United States / General, African American

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorJefferson Cowie

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight26.5 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-496308

Reviews"Jefferson Cowie's Freedom's Dominion is a magisterial narrative history of white grievance politics. Cowie reveals the origins of these often hypocritical and confounding perspectives, in which those who stole, enslaved, and segregated would themselves claim to be victims of federal overreach, even as they oppressed so many others. Cowie's terrific book explains the Southern roots of that racialized ideology and reveals how one of the most influential segregationist rhetoricians of the 1960s helped repackage this powerful form of regional white identity politics for the rest of the nation." -- William Sturkey, author of Hattiesburg

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal323.440973

SynopsisAmerican 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 , 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, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America., WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant" ( New York Times ) 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 , 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, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.

LC Classification NumberE184.A1C675 2024