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

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747253
• ISBN13: 9780804747257
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"