EAN: 9783030037321

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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 divested from the politics of modern state and tied with the pre-modern social institutions.

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