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.
Ivan Jankovic
The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty [PDF ebook]
How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850
The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty [PDF ebook]
How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 279 ● ISBN 9783030037338 ● 文件大小 2.5 MB ● 出版者 Springer International Publishing ● 市 Cham ● 国家 CH ● 发布时间 2018 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6774800 ● 复制保护 社会DRM