TY - BOOK ID - 77882773 TI - The two faces of American freedom PY - 2010 SN - 0674058968 9780674058965 9780674048973 0674048970 9780674284333 9780674284333 067428433X 067428433X PB - Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Liberty KW - Imperialism KW - Political culture KW - Democracy KW - Hegemony KW - Hegemonism KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Unipolarity (International relations) KW - History. KW - United States KW - Politics and government. KW - Territorial expansion. KW - Annexations KW - Government KW - History, Political KW - Frontier and pioneer life - United States KW - Liberty - History KW - Imperialism - History KW - Political culture - United States - History KW - Democracy - United States - History KW - Hegemony - United States - History KW - Etats-Unis KW - United States - Politics and government KW - United States - Territorial expansion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77882773 AB - 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 society’s guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for today’s reformers is to recover a robust notion of independence and participation from the settler experience while finally making it universal. ER -