@article{1478922,
      author = {Rana, Aziz, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478922},
      title = {The Two Faces of American Freedom /},
      abstract = {This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national  experience, reconceiving key political events from the  Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that  the national founding was first and foremost an experiment  in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal  self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which  combined direct political participation with economic  independence. However, this independence was based on ideas  of extensive land ownership which helped to sustain both  territorial conquest and the subordination of slaves and  native peoples. At the close of the nineteenth century,  emerging social movements struggled to liberate the  potential of self-rule from these oppressive and  exclusionary features. These efforts ultimately collapsed,  in large part because white settlers failed to conceive of  liberty as a truly universal aspiration. The consequence  was the rise of new modes of political authority that  presented national and economic security as society's  guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for  today's reformers is to recover a robust notion of  independence and participation from the settler experience  while finally making it universal.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674058965},
      recid = {1478922},
      pages = {1 online resource (432 p.)},
}