Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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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