Liberalism And Republicanism In The Historical Imagination

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674530133
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination written by Joyce Appleby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. The author contrasts this view with classical republicanism--ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good. The two concepts, as the author shows, posed choices in their day and in ours, specifically in addressing the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom.

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814705839
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and a New Social Order written by Joyce Appleby and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the vision of Jeffersonian Republicans and their impact on early American politics In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They infused in it their vision of a society of economically progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's first popular political movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the "more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution, they expected to build a strong central government led by the revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians: interlopers, émigrés, polemicists—what the Federalists called the "mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of traditional European notions of order and authority came under attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial agriculture that gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus, capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision. Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent fusion of morality and materialism.

Author : Joyce Oldham Appleby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and a New Social Order written by Joyce Oldham Appleby and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461640520
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Restless Past written by Joyce Appleby and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when public commemorations and remembrances often develop into battlefields of contested meanings, historians play an even greater role in shaping the way the American public sees and understands its past. Distinguished historian Joyce Appleby has been at the forefront of many of the recent debates about historians and the public's history. In this engaging work, she brings together her most important reflections on the historian's craft and its importance. A Restless Past carefully examines the ways in which the dynamic events of the second half of the twentieth century have significantly altered the way historians approach the past and highlights the incredible power they hold in shaping a national identity. Through the considerable ideological shifts of the last half century, historians have responded by asking new questions about those who preceded us and created powerful identities for those who had been long ignored.

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339394
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism written by Joyce Appleby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unlikely development of a potent historical force, told with grace, insight, and authority by one of our best historians. With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape centuries ago, starting with a handful of isolated changes in farming, trade, and manufacturing, clustered in early-modern England. Astute observers began to notice these changes and consider their effects. Those in power began to harness these new practices to the state, enhancing both. A system generating wealth, power, and new ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change. The centuries-long history of capitalism is rich and eventful. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as important for its ideas and values as for its inventions and systems, Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to this most potent creation of mankind from its origins to now.

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674006631
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheriting the Revolution written by Joyce Appleby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the experiences of the first generation of Americans who inherited the independent country, discussing the lives, businesses, and religious freedoms that transformed the country in its early years.

Author : Willi Paul Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742520691
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First American Constitutions written by Willi Paul Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last twenty years this book has been cited by every serious writer on early American constitutional development. Any constitutional history of the independent United States must begin with this comprehensive study. Professor Adams combines a European perspective and a thorough knowledge of the antecedents of 1787 to create an insightful analysis of the replacement by the revolutionary generation of one government by another by--they thought--"constitutional" means. Acting for "the people" in 11 of the 13 rebelling states, various kinds of self-empowered committees, "congresses," or "conventions" created new constitutions and a system in which the states dominated over the weaker Confederation government. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the U.S. Constitution, and another chapter critically testing the "republicanism over liberalism" thesis against political ideas and institutional arrangements that constitute the first state constitutions. The bibliography has been updated to include the rich body of work written during the last two decades, much of it indebted to this pioneering study.

Author : Joyce Oldham Appleby
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393068948
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relentless Revolution written by Joyce Oldham Appleby and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian provides a thorough account of the unlikely development of a potent historical force--the capitalist economic system, which provides a framework for the lives of many people around the world.

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling the Truth about History written by Joyce Appleby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist

Author : David F. Ericson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226216836
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of American Liberalism written by David F. Ericson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of opposing positions in the debate over the origins of American political tradition; the Hartz v.s. the Bailyn viewpoints.