Willing Obedience

Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898

Gebonden Engels 2003 9780804747257
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This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of liberty and obedience in fiction, military memoir, and political writing from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. In contrast to the European model of a subject's blind obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

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ISBN13:9780804747257
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:288
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1KBB Verenigde Staten van Amerika, VS
2ACB Engels
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899

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