{"product_id":"freedoms-dominion-a-saga-of-white-resistance-to-federal-power-9781541605121","title":"Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jefferson Cowie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An \"important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.   \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.   \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e 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. ","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45046233464983,"sku":"9781541605121","price":1558.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781541605121.webp?v=1768544762","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/freedoms-dominion-a-saga-of-white-resistance-to-federal-power-9781541605121","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}