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Willing Obedience
Elizabeth D. Samet
其他書名
Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898
出版Stanford University Press, 2004
主題History / United States / GeneralPolitical Science / Civics & CitizenshipPolitical Science / Law EnforcementSocial Science / Research
ISBN08047472539780804747257
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5Azbm5CwlTMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.