Freedom's dominion : a saga of white resistance to federal power
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Adult Non-Fiction - Non-Fiction Sect.
305.80097 Cowie
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305.80097 Cowie
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Barbour County (Ala.) -- History.
Barbour County (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History.
Civil rights -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Liberty -- Political aspects -- Alabama -- Barbour County.
Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
White supremacy movements -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History.
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History.
Barbour County (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History.
Civil rights -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
Liberty -- Political aspects -- Alabama -- Barbour County.
Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
White supremacy movements -- Alabama -- Barbour County -- History.
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History.
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Book
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-479) and index.
Description
A prize-winning historian chronicles 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cowie, J. (2022). Freedom's dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power (First edition.). Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cowie, Jefferson. 2022. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cowie, Jefferson. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Basic Books, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cowie, Jefferson. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power First edition., Basic Books, 2022.
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