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Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination
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The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; libera...
The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. The author contrasts this view with classical republicanism--ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good. The two concepts, as the author shows, posed choices in their day and in ours, specifically in addressing the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom.
Details
- Creator
- Joyce Appleby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0674530128, 9780674530126, 0674530136, 9780674530133
- OCLC
- ocn645929442
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Political and economic liberalism in seventeenth-century England -- Locke, liberalism, and the natural law of money -- Modernization theory and Anglo-American social theories -- Ideology and the history of political thought -- Liberalism and the American revolution -- The social origins of American Revolutionary ideology -- John Adams and the New Republican synthesis -- The American heritage : the heirs and the disinherited -- The American model for the French revolutionaries -- The "agrarian myth" in the early republic -- Republicanism and ideology -- What is still American in Jefferson's political philosophy -- Republicanism in old and new contexts