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THE TWO FACES OF AMERICAN FREEDOM THE TWO FACES OF AMERICAN FREEDOM Aziz Rana harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, En gland 2010 Copyright © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This book was published with the support of the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Rana, Aziz. The two faces of American freedom / Aziz Rana. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674-0 4897- 3 (alk. paper) 1. United States— Politics and government. 2. United States— Territorial expansion. 3. Frontier and pioneer life— United States. 4. Liberty— History. 5. Imperialism—History. 6. Political culture— United States— History. 7. Democracy—United States— History. 8. Hegemony—United States— History. I. Title. E183.R27 2010 973—dc22 2010005770 For my parents and Odette Long having wander’d since, round the earth having wander’d, Now I face home again, very pleas’d and joyous, (But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?) —Walt Whitman, “Facing West from California’s Shores” (1860) CONTENTS Introduction: Liberty and Empire in the American Experience 1 1 Settler Revolt and the Foundations of American Freedom 20 2 Citizens and Subjects in Postcolonial America 99 3 The Populist Challenge and the Unraveling of Settler Society 176 4 Plebiscitary Politics and the New Constitutional Order 236 Conclusion: Democracy and Inclusion in the Age of American Hegemony 326 Notes 351 Ac know ledg ments 397 Index 399
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