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1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations. |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
Critique of self-evident liberty -- British Legacies: Privilege at the heart of freedom ; Marriage of rights and inequality -- Transmission of restricted liberty to Colonial America: Reproducing the Old World order in the provinces ; Fear of levelling and licentiousness ; Property and the cult of liberty -- Revolution: Radical script for a preservationist struggle ; Universalization of the language of freedom ; Delegitimizing pedigreed advantage ; Inventing patriotic traditions ; Constituting the people ; Equality as the future of America -- Sway of symbolic power: Captains of the ship of progress ; Meaning of representation ; Claims of liberty claim their authors -- Usurpers and dupes. The backlash: Revolutionary vocabulary against revoutionary government ; Party struggles and the expansion of liberty ; Ruling class: a crisis of identity ; Useful mob ; People's aristocracy. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
ISBN |
9780813931548 (electronic bk.) |
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0813931541 (electronic bk.) |
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1280490020 |
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9781280490026 |
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