Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination / Joyce Appleby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appleby, Joyce, 1929-2016, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

United States.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 351 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Follows the labyrinthine controversies that the two perspectives of liberalism and republicanism have generated in their day and in current times. Appleby addresses the tensions that remain to be resolved in the democratic societies of the late 20th century.

Contents:

Introduction: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination

I. Political and Economic Liberalism in Seventeenth-Century England

2. Locke, Liberalism, and the Natural Law of Money

3. Modernization Theory and Anglo-American Social Theories

4. Ideology and the History of Political Thought

5. Liberalism and the American Revolution

6. The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology

7. John Adams and the New Republican Synthesis

8. The American Heritage

The Heirs and the Disinherited

9. The American Model for the French Revolutionaries

10. The "Agrarian Myth" in the Early Republic

11. Republicanism and Ideology

12. What Is Still American in Jefferson's Political Philosophy?

13. Republicanism in Old and New Contexts

Sources

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.