Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the evolution of a distinctive republican vision
  • Part I. Adams moves to the center
  • A provincial reverence for the British Constitution, 1735-1767
  • The discovery of the republic, 1768-1772
  • Realm versus dominion, 1773-1774
  • From imperial dominion to autonomous republic, 1774-1775
  • Building a republican orthodoxy, 1775-1776
  • Part II. Adams on his own
  • Defending executive authority, 1775-1779
  • An education in American aristocracy, 1775-1783
  • Redefining the republican tradition, 1784-1787
  • John Adams's republic in republican America, 1787-1800
  • A retrospective retirement, 1801-1826
  • Conclusion: memory and desire in revolutionary politics.