Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Joyce Appleby
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 351 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 heritage : the 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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The author claims that 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. The author contrasts this view with classical republicanism--ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good. The two concepts, as the author shows, posed choices in their day and in ours, specifically in addressing the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom
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Title
Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Liberalism-- United States-- History-- 18th century
Republicanism-- United States-- History-- 18th century
Libéralisme - États-Unis - Histoire - 18e siècle
Républicanisme - États-Unis - Histoire - 18e siècle
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Influence