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Geoff Hamilton - American Freedom, Inbunden

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American Freedom

The Basics

Av Geoff Hamilton

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American Freedom: The Basics explores ideals of freedom as they have been conceived, debated, practiced, and struggled for in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the present day.Across ten chapters, the book addresses these core concepts: the nation’s revolutionary ideals and actualities; slavery and emancipation; and territorial expansion and demographic change. It goes on to discuss economic liberty, Native American survivance, women’s liberty and other modern freedom movements, finally addressing the issues around guns and freedom, American incarceration, and freedom across the Information Age. Taken together, these chapters offer an introduction to the subject of American freedom that charts – and reveals intersections between – critical ideas, events, figures, and cultural phenomena. The book provides an orienting view useful in guiding future explorations, along with a compelling sense of why such explorations matter. Examining ideals of freedom brings us to the center of debates about what being an American has meant – and might yet mean. Those debates are, this book argues, intensely vital and relevant today.Readable and concise, featuring chapter summaries and discussion questions, this book will be useful for undergraduate students of American History, American Politics, American Cultural Studies, and American Literature.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-16
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 620 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Basics
  • Antal sidor: 238
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781032844749
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Geoff Hamilton teaches humanities at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature (2013), Understanding Gary Shteyngart (2017), and A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (2019).

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"At a moment when the heritage of American liberty is noisily championed by some of the very same forces that threaten to curtail our hard-won freedoms, Geoff Hamilton’s lucid, wide-ranging, timely, and eminently sane delineation of the much-contested concept feels like necessary reading for all who wish to understand and sustain the democratic national experiment in all its complexity and precarity."Art Redding, Professor of English,York University"Geoff Hamilton’s American Freedom is a concise but comprehensive history of the American concept of 'freedom,' and its contested meanings. Its opening chapter, on the Indigenous foundations of that concept, is an important contribution to the history of ideas in America." Richard Slotkin, Professor of American Studies Emeritus, Wesleyan University. Author of A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (2024)"In 1864 Abraham Lincoln opined 'We all declare liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.' American Freedom offers an engaging and accessible exploration of these contested meanings from the Age of Revolution to the Information Age, providing important historical context to the ongoing debate around these ideas."Lynn Kennedy, Academic Quality Assurance Committee Chair & Associate Professor, Department of History & Religion, University of Lethbridge

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