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The Unvarnished Doctrine : Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution /
In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution-the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of ""America's Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke, "" in this experie...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1990.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution-the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of ""America's Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke, "" in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the ""spirit of capitalism, "" a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo St |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (264 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822382249 |