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Autore: | Jankovic Ivan |
Titolo: | The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty : How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850 / / by Ivan Jankovic |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2019. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XI, 279 p. 1 illus.) |
Disciplina: | 320.973 |
323.44097309033 | |
Soggetto topico: | America - Politics and government |
World politics | |
Political science | |
American Politics | |
Political History | |
Political Theory | |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. The American Revolution as the Last European Peasants’ Rebellion -- 2. Consent, Representation and Liberty: America as the Last Medieval Society -- 3. Shades of Anarchy: The Concept of Lawful Rebellion in America -- 4. Men of Little Faith Facing the Modern State: The Country Party Ideology in Great Britain -- 5. When in the Course of Human Events -- Hobbes, Locke and the Long Parliament against America -- 6. The Great Derailment: Philadelphia Putsch of 1787 and the Coming of the American State -- 7. 1776 Strikes Back – Antifederalist Critics of the Constitution -- 8. The Compact Theory of the Union – A Revolution within a Form -- 9. Free Market in a Small Republic – Economic Doctrines of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians -- 10. The Last Stand: John C. Calhoun -- 11. Conclusion. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its “statesmen” during the 1780s, but rather in the political and social resistance to their efforts. There were two revolutions occurring in the late 18th century America: the modern European revolution “in favour of government,” pursuing national unity, “energetic” government and centralization of power (what scholars usually dub “American founding”); and a conservative, reactionary counter-revolution “in favour of liberty,” defending local rights and liberal individualism against the encroaching political authority. This is a book about this liberal counter-revolution and its ideological, political and cultural sources and central protagonists. The central analytical argument of the book is that America before the Revolution was a stateless, spontaneous political order that evolved culturally, politically and economically in isolation from the modern European trends of state-building and centralization of power. The book argues, then, that a better model for understanding America is a “decoupled modernization” hypothesis, in which social modernity is divested from the politics of modern state and tied with the pre-modern social institutions. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty |
ISBN: | 3-030-03733-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910337864303321 |
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