Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture PDF
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THE CURTI LECTURES 1985 To honor the distinguished historian Merle Curti, lectures in social and intellectual history were inaugurated in 1976 under the sponsorship of the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the Department of History of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spheres of Liberty An 1849 U.S. silver dollar displaying the seated Liberty engraved by Christian Gobrecht. This popular and widely used design appeared on American coinage for more than half a century: on dollars (1836-73), half-dollars (1839-91), quarters (1838-91), dimes (1837-91), and half-dimes (1837-73). (Courtesy, National Numismatic Collections, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) Spheres of Liberty Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture MICHAEL KAMMEN BANNER BOOKS University Press of Mississippi Jackson www.upress.state.ms.us First published in 1986 by the University of Wisconsin Press Copyright © 1986, 2001 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin Press Preface © 2001 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 4 3 21 00 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kammen, Michael G. Spheres of liberty : changing perceptions of liberty in American culture / Michael Kammen. p. cm. Originally published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. With new introd. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 1-57806-394-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Liberty—History. 2. Political science—United States—History. I. Tide. JC599.U5 K29 2001 323.44*0973—dc21 2001026734 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available for Daniel Merson Kammen This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 PART ONE Liberty, Authority, and Property in Early America 15 PART TWO Ordered Liberty and Law in Nineteenth- Century America 6 5 PART THREE Liberty, Justice, and Equality in Twentieth- Century America 127 Notes on Liberty in American Iconography 175 Index 181 ix This page intentionally left blank
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