American Freedom

The Basics
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-84474-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Basics

American Freedom: The Basics explores ideals of freedom as they have been conceived, debated, practiced, and struggled for in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the present day.

Across ten chapters, the book addresses these core concepts: the nation’s revolutionary ideals and actualities; slavery and emancipation; and territorial expansion and demographic change. It goes on to discuss economic liberty, Native American survivance, women’s liberty and other modern freedom movements, finally addressing the issues around guns and freedom, American incarceration, and freedom across the Information Age. Taken together, these chapters offer an introduction to the subject of American freedom that charts – and reveals intersections between – critical ideas, events, figures, and cultural phenomena. The book provides an orienting view useful in guiding future explorations, along with a compelling sense of why such explorations matter. Examining ideals of freedom brings us to the center of debates about what being an American has meant – and might yet mean. Those debates are, this book argues, intensely vital and relevant today.

Readable and concise, featuring chapter summaries and discussion questions, this book will be useful for undergraduate students of American History, American Politics, American Cultural Studies, and American Literature.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Prologue: Indigenous Foundations, 1: Revolutionary Ideals and Actualities, 2: Slavery and Emancipation, 3: Territorial Expansion and Demographic Change, 4: Economic Liberty,  5: Native American Survivance, 6: Women’s Liberty, 7: Modern Freedom Movements, 8: Guns and Freedom, 9: American Incarceration, 10: Freedom in the Information Age

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Hamilton teaches humanities at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature (2013), Understanding Gary Shteyngart (2017), and A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (2019).