Culture and liberty in the age of the American Revolution /

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...

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Tác giả chính: Rozbicki, Michał (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Loạt:Jeffersonian America.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=388853
Mục lục:
  • Critique of self-evident liberty
  • British Legacies: Privilege at the heart of freedom ; Marriage of rights and inequality
  • Transmission of restricted liberty to Colonial America: Reproducing the Old World order in the provinces ; Fear of levelling and licentiousness ; Property and the cult of liberty
  • Revolution: Radical script for a preservationist struggle ; Universalization of the language of freedom ; Delegitimizing pedigreed advantage ; Inventing patriotic traditions ; Constituting the people ; Equality as the future of America
  • Sway of symbolic power: Captains of the ship of progress ; Meaning of representation ; Claims of liberty claim their authors
  • Usurpers and dupes. The backlash: Revolutionary vocabulary against revoutionary government ; Party struggles and the expansion of liberty ; Ruling class: a crisis of identity ; Useful mob ; People's aristocracy.