The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty : how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 / Ivan Jankovic.
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...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.