Introduction, Prologue: Indigenous Foundations, 1: Revolutionary Ideals and Actualities, 2: Slavery and Emancipation, 3: Territorial Expansion and Demographic Change, 4: Economic Liberty, 5: Native American Survivance, 6: Women’s Liberty, 7: Modern Freedom Movements, 8: Guns and Freedom, 9: American Incarceration, 10: Freedom in the Information Age
Biography
Geoff Hamilton teaches humanities at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature (2013), Understanding Gary Shteyngart (2017), and A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (2019).
"At a moment when the heritage of American liberty is noisily championed by some of the very same forces that threaten to curtail our hard-won freedoms, Geoff Hamilton’s lucid, wide-ranging, timely, and eminently sane delineation of the much-contested concept feels like necessary reading for all who wish to understand and sustain the democratic national experiment in all its complexity and precarity."
Art Redding, Professor of English, York University
