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

by Elizabeth D. Samet

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804747253

ISBN13:9780804747257

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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