Culture and liberty in the age of the American Revolution / Michal Jan Rozbicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rozbicki, Michał.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Liberty.

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

Social status--United States--History--18th century.

Social status.

Social classes--United States--History--18th century.

Social classes.

Elite (Social sciences)--United States--History--18th century.

Elite (Social sciences).

Founding Fathers of the United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The uncontainable success of this narrative went far beyond the circumstances that gave birth to it because it put new cultural capital--a conceptual arsenal of rights and freedoms--at the disposal of ordinary people as well as political factions competing for their support, providing priceless legitimacy to all those who would insist that its nominal inclusiveness include them in fact.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Critique of Self-Evident Liberty

2. British Legacies

I. Privilege at the Heart of Freedom

II. The Marriage of Rights and Inequality

3. The Transmission of Restricted Liberty to Colonial America

I. Reproducing the Old World Order in the Provinces

II. Fear of Levelling and Licentiousness

III. Property and the Cult of Liberty

4. The Revolution

I. A Radical Script for a Preservationist Struggle

II. The Universalization of the Language of Freedom

III. Delegitimizing Pedigreed Advantage

IV. Inventing Patriotic Traditions

V. Constituting the People

VI.Equality as the Future of America

5. The Sway of Symbolic Power

I. Captains of the Ship of Progress

II. The Meaning of Representation

III. Claims of Liberty Claim Their Authors

6. Usurpers and Dupes: The Backlash

I. Revolutionary Vocabulary against Revolutionary Government

II. Party Struggles and the Expansion of Liberty

III. The Ruling Class: A Crisis of Identity

IV. The Useful Mob

V. A People's Aristocracy

Conclusion: Liberty and the Web of Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585257

9781280490026

1280490020

9780813931548

0813931541

OCLC:

755632774