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

Samet, Elizabeth D.

 
9780804747257: Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898
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ISBN 10: 0804747253 ISBN 13: 9780804747257
Editorial: Stanford University Press, 2003

Sinopsis

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 obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

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Elizabeth D. Samet is Associate Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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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 obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

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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 obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

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Editorial
Stanford University Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0804747253
ISBN 13 
9780804747257
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Número de páginas
288
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9780804747264: Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898

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