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The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty :

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3030037339

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9783030037338

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9783030037321

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The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty :

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[Book]

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how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 /

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Ivan Jankovic.

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Cham, Switzerland :

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Palgrave Macmillan,

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[2019]

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1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references.

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The American Revolution as the last European peasants' rebellion -- Consent, representation, and liberty : America as the last medieval society -- Shades of anarchy : the concept of lawful rebellion in America introduction -- Men of little faith facing the modern state : the country party ideology in Great Britain -- When in the course of human events ... : Hobbes, Locke, and the Long Parliament against America -- The great derailment : Philadelphia putsch of 1787 and the coming of the American state -- 1776 strikes back : anti-federalist critics of the constitution -- The compact theory of the union : a revolution within a form -- Free market in a small republic : economic doctrines of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians -- The last stand : John C. Calhoun.

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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. 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.

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Springer Nature

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American counter-revolution in favor of liberty.

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9783030037321

Democracy-- United States-- History-- 18th century.

Government, Resistance to-- United States-- History-- 18th century.

Government, Resistance to-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Liberty-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 18th century.

Liberty-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Democracy.

Government, Resistance to.

Liberty-- Social aspects.

United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

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Jankovic, Ivan, (Economist)

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20200823075733.0

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