The American counter-revolution in favor of liberty : how Americans resisted modern state, 1765-1850 /

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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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Jankovic, Ivan (Economist) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:
Liberty > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Liberty > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History > 18th century.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy > United States > History > 18th century.
Democracy.
Government, Resistance to.
Liberty > Social aspects.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States.
History.
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.

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