عنوان

Liberty and Freedom /

شابک

0195162536

شابک

9780195162530

شماره

b534429

عنوان اصلي

Liberty and Freedom /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

David Hackett Fischer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2005]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

851 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (some color) ;

ابعاد

27 cm

عنوان فروست

America, a cultural history ;

مشخصه جلد

3

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-818) and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction: conversation with Captain Preston -- Early America: visions of the founders, 1607-1775 -- Republic united: search for a common vision, 1776-1840 -- Nation divided: freedom against liberty, 1840-1912 -- World at war: free society and its enemies, 1916-1945 -- People among others: global visions of liberty and freedom, 1945-2004 -- Conclusion: view from Tocqueville's terrace

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

A distinguished history and author of Washington's Crossing analyzes the concepts of liberty and freedom through visions, images, and symbols throughout the folk history of those ideas, showing how they are popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture rather than political abstractions. Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. Tocqueville called them "habits of the heart." From the earliest colonies, Americans have shared ideals of liberty and freedom, but with very different meanings. Like DNA these ideas have transformed and recombined in each generation. The book arose from Fischer's discovery that the words themselves had differing origins: the Latinate "liberty" implied separation and independence. The root meaning of "freedom" (akin to "friend") connoted attachment: the rights of belonging in a community of freepeople. The tension between the two senses has been a source of conflict and creativity throughout American history. Liberty & Freedom studies the folk history of those ideas through more than 400 visions, images, and symbols. It begins with the American Revolution, and explores the meaning of New England's Liberty Tree, Pennsylvania's Liberty Bells, Carolina's Liberty Crescent, and "Don't Tread on Me" rattlesnakes. In the new republic, the search for a common American symbol gave new meaning to Yankee Doodle, Uncle Sam, Miss Liberty, and many other icons. In the Civil War, Americans divided over liberty and freedom. Afterward, new universal visions were invented by people who had formerly been excluded from a free society--African Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. The twentieth century saw liberty and freedom tested by enemies and contested at home, yet it brought the greatest outpouring of new visions, from Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to Martin Luther King's "dream" to Janis Joplin's "nothin' left to lose. Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, Liberty and Freedom is, literally, an eye-opening work of history--stimulating, large-spirited, and ultimately, inspiring

عنوان

Liberty and freedom.

موضوع مستند نشده

Liberty-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

National characteristics, American

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, Pictorial works

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Politics and government

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

شماره

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Fischer, David Hackett,1935-

تاريخ عمليات

20160712073418.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y