TY  - GEN
T1  - Culture and liberty in the age of the American Revolution
T2  - Jeffersonian America.
A1  - Rozbicki, Michał
LA  - English
PP  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn755632774
AB  - From the publisher. In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the current gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting the Revolution. By establishing systemic linkages between the histories of the free and the unfree, and between the factual and the symbolic, this framework points to a fundamental reassessment of the ways we think about the American Founding. Rozbicki moves beyond the two dominant interpretations of Revolutionary liberty{u2014}one assuming the Founders invested it with a modern meaning that has in essence continued to the present day, the other highlighting its apparent betrayal by their commitment to inequality. Through a consistent focus on the interplay between culture and power, Rozbicki demonstrates that liberty existed as an intricate fusion of political practices and symbolic forms. His deeply historicized reconstruction of its contemporary meanings makes it clear that liberty was still understood as a set of privileges distributed according to social rank, rather than a universal right. In fact, it was because the Founders considered this assumption self-evident that they felt confident in publicizing a highly liberal, symbolic narrative of equal liberty to represent the Revolutionary endeavor. The uncontainable success of this narrative went far beyond the circumstances that gave birth to it because it put new cultural capital{u2014}a conceptual arsenal of rights and freedoms{u2014}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.
OP  - 288
CN  - E209 .R89 2011eb
SN  - 9780813931548
SN  - 0813931541
SN  - 1280490020
SN  - 9781280490026
SN  - 9786613585257
SN  - 6613585254
SN  - 9780813930640
SN  - 0813930642
KW  - United States : History : Revolution, 1775-1783 : Social aspects.
KW  - Liberty : Social aspects : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Liberty : Political aspects : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Social status : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Social classes : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Elite (Social sciences) : United States : History : 18th century.
KW  - Founding Fathers of the United States.
KW  - États-Unis : Histoire : 1775-1783 (Révolution) : Aspect social.
KW  - Liberté : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Liberté : Aspect politique : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Statut social : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Classes sociales : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Élite (Sciences sociales) : États-Unis : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Pères fondateurs des États-Unis.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Founding Fathers of the United States
KW  - Liberty : Political aspects
KW  - Liberty : Social aspects
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Social status
KW  - United States
KW  - Amerikanische Revolution
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Freiheit
KW  - Vrijheid.
KW  - Culturele aspecten.
KW  - Sociale klassen.
KW  - Amerikaanse Vrijheidsoorlog.
KW  - Verenigde Staten.
KW  - Freiheit.
KW  - Kultur.
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - History
ER  -