| 书目名称 | The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty | | 副标题 | How Americans Resist | | 编辑 | Ivan Jankovic | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Argues that America is the last medieval society.Claims that the American Revolution was a rebellion against the modern state.Makes the case that political localism in America goes together with free | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 America: the modern European revolution “in favour of government,” pursuing national unity, “energetic” government and centralization of power (what scholars usually dub “American founding”); and a conservative, reactionary counter-revolution “in favour of liberty,” defending local rights and liberal individualism against the encroaching political authority. This is a book about this liberal counter-revolution and its ideological, political and cultural sources and central protagonists. The central analytical argument of the book is that America before the Revolution was a stateless, spontaneous political order that evolved culturally, politically and economically in isolation from the modern European trends of state-building and centralization of power. The book argues, then, that a better model for understanding America is a “decoupled modernization” hypothesis, in which social modernity is di | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | American revolution; modern European revolution; American founding; modern American state; state-buildin | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03733-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-03733-8 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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