The Two Faces of American Freedom

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The Two Faces of American Freedom

This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national experience, reconceiving key political events from the Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that the national founding was first and foremost an experiment in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which combined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this independence was based on ideas of extensive land ownership which helped to sustain both territorial conquest and the subordination of slaves and native peoples. At the close of the nineteenth century, emerging social movements struggled to liberate the potential of self-rule from these oppressive and exclusionary features. These efforts ultimately collapsed, in large part because white settlers failed to conceive of liberty as a truly universal aspiration. The consequence was the rise of new modes of political authority that presented national and economic security as societyâ€™s guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for todayâ€™s reformers is to recover a robust notion of independence and participation from the settler experience while finally making it universal.

Country	USA
Author	Aziz Rana
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780674058965
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Harvard University Press
Manufacturer	Harvard University Press
NumberOfPages	432
PublicationDate	2011-01-15
Publisher	Harvard University Press
ReleaseDate	2011-01-15
Studio	Harvard University Press

The Two Faces of American Freedom

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