Willing obedience : citizens, soldiers, and the progress of consent in America, 1776-1898
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., ©2004
History
xii, 273 pages ; 23 cm
9780804747257, 9780804747264, 0804747253, 0804747261
53215712
Introduction : Sherman, Lincoln, and the lawyer : a parable of obedience
The Washington touch
Lincoln's electric cord
Civil warriors and vandal chiefs
Habits of command, habits of obedience
A singular absence of heroic poses
Coda : the education of Theodore Roosevelt