The story of American freedom
From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner examines freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been conteste...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Language: | Anglais |
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New York ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company
1998.
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Autres tirages : 1999 (1ere édition brochée) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Summary: | From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner examines freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises but also on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms, by our acknowledged leaders and by former slaves, union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights advocates. |
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| Item Description: | Autres tirages : 1999 (1ere édition brochée) |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (XXII-422 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Notes bibliogr. p. [333]-393. Index |
| ISBN: | 0393046656 (rel.) 0393319628 (br.) : 9780393319620 (br.) : |