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Medieval America - Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture (Hardcover)
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Medieval America - Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture (Hardcover)
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Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives
that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.
Against Cold War-era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following
political scientist Louis Hartz's "liberal consensus" model, that
the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from
Europe's feudal institutions and uninterested in the production of
its medieval culture productions, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that
feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of
the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century. The
racial, gender, and class formations that emerged in the first era
of U.S. nation building were deeply indebted to medieval social,
political, and religious thought-an observation that challenges the
liberal consensus model and allows us to better grasp how American
social roles developed. Far from casting off feudal tradition, the
early United States folded feudalism into its emerging liberal
order, creating a knotted system of values and practices that
continue to structure the American experience. Sometimes, the
feudal residuum contradicted the liberal values of the Unites
States. Other times, the feudal residuum bolstered those values,
revealing deep sympathies between so-called "modern" and
"premodern" political thought. Medieval America thus aims to
reorient our discussions about American cultural and political
development in terms of the long arc of European history.
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