The myth of American individualism : the Protestant origins of American political thought /

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Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shain, Barry Alan, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Colección:Princeton paperbacks.
Temas:
1700-1799
Common good > History > 18th century.
Communities > History > 18th century.
Individualism > United States > History > 18th century.
Political science > United States > History > 18th century.
Bien commun > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Communauté > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Common good.
Communities.
Individualism.
Political science.
Individualismus
Protestantismus
Politisches Denken
United States.
USA
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: STANDING: THE PUBLIC GOOD, THE INDIVIDUAL, AND THE COMMUNITY
  • CHAPTER ONE Three Discourses in Defense of the Public Good
  • CHAPTER TWO A Sketch of 18th-Century American Communalism
  • CHAPTER THREE Localism and the Myth of American Individualism
  • CHAPTER FOUR Three Leading Views of the Individual, Plus One
  • PART TWO: THE MEANING OF LIBERTY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
  • CHAPTER FIVE A Delusive Similarity: (Ordered) Liberty and Freedom
  • CHAPTER SIX Spiritual Liberty: The Quintessential Liberty
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Corporate Liberty: Political and Civil
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Concept of Slavery: Liberty's Antithesis
  • AFTERWORD
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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