Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Freedom's Dominion won the Pulitzer Prize in History. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN-13
- 9781541672819
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Racism and white supremacyFederal power vs. states' rightsCivil rights movement
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(2023)
Other awarded books from Jefferson Cowie
- Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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