The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty : how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 /
Jankovic, Ivan (Economist),
The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty : how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 / Ivan Jankovic. - xi, 279 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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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2018960880
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019202473 Uk
Liberty--Social aspects--History--United States--18th century.
Liberty--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--United States--18th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--United States--19th century.
Democracy--History--United States--18th century.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty : how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 / Ivan Jankovic. - xi, 279 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
9783030037321 3030037320
2018960880
GBB905080 bnb
019202473 Uk
Liberty--Social aspects--History--United States--18th century.
Liberty--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--United States--18th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--United States--19th century.
Democracy--History--United States--18th century.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.