Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination

Name: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
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ISBN: 9780674530133

ISBN-10: 0674530136

ISBN-13: 9780674530133

Edition: 1992

Authors: Joyce Appleby

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Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign, liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. Expressed in the nation-building acts of revolution and constitution-writing, liberalism both structured and limited Americans' sense of reality for two centuries. The nation's scholars were unable to break away from liberalism's pervasive hold on the American mind until the last generation--when they recovered the lost world of classical republicanism.…

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298



Introduction: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination



Political and Economic Liberalism in Seventeenth-Century England



Locke, Liberalism, and the Natural Law of Money



Modernization Theory and Anglo-American Social Theories



Ideology and the History of Political Thought



Liberalism and the American Revolution



The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology



John Adams and the New Republican Synthesis



The American HeritageThe Heirs and the Disinherited



The American Model for the French Revolutionaries



The "Agrarian Myth" in the Early Republic



Republicanism and Ideology



What Is Still American in Jefferson's Political Philosophy?



Republicanism in Old and New Contexts


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