American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty

How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-12-29
Mått148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt504 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor279
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030037321

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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.