Revolutions revisited : two faces of the politics of enlightenment /

What happens after the revolution? In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner explores how suchs enlightened revolutionaries as Franklin, Lincoln, and Tocqueville met the challenge of translating a revolution into lasting political and social change. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America a...

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Tác giả chính: Lerner, Ralph
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1994.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807862865_lerner
Mục lục:
  • pt. 1. Looking forward: Dr. Janus
  • America's place in the Enlightenment
  • A dialogue of fathers and sons
  • pt. 2. Re-visioning "Our revolution": What manner of speech?
  • Burke's muffled oars
  • Lincoln's revolution
  • Tocqueville's political sermon
  • Revival through recollection.