The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765-1850 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jankovic, Ivan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: United States-Politics and government.; World politics.; Political theory.; US Politics.; Political History.; Political Theory.

This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "statesmen" during the 1780s, but rather in the political and social resistance to their efforts. There were two revolutions occurring in the late 18th century...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. The American Revolution as the Last European Peasants' Rebellion
• 2. Consent, Representation and Liberty: America as the Last Medieval Society
• 3. Shades of Anarchy: The Concept of Lawful Rebellion in America
• 4. Men of Little Faith Facing the Modern State: The Country Party Ideology in Great Britain
• 5. When in the Course of Human Events
• Hobbes, Locke and the Long Parliament against America
• 6. The Great Derailment: Philadelphia Putsch of 1787 and the Coming of the American State
• 7. 1776 Strikes Back - Antifederalist Critics of the Constitution
• 8. The Compact Theory of the Union - A Revolution within a Form
• 9. Free Market in a Small Republic - Economic Doctrines of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians
• 10. The Last Stand: John C. Calhoun
• 11. Conclusion.