Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Joyce Appleby
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Biography
- Subjects: Ideology, United States or Americans, Intellectuals, Colonialism, Individuality, England or English people, American Revolution, Liberalism, Citizenship, Modernization, Republican Party
- Locales: United States, England, American colonies
Made up of an introduction and thirteen previously published essays, LIBERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM IN THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION (1992) constitutes both an intellectual autobiography of the author, Joyce Appleby, and a coming to terms with the “republican” point of view that has dominated interpretations of the American Revolution since the late 1960’s. This point of view takes issue with that of an earlier school of “consensus” historians which saw liberalism as our original national ideology. The new school argues that the intellectual midwives of colonial resistance to...
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