Freedom's Dominion

Freedom's Dominion A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781541672802
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Basic Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 305.809973
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230213
Language: English
Number of pages: x, 497
Weight: 744g
Height: 161mm
Width: 244mm
Spine width: 46mm