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THE AMERICAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LIB...

This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the
constitutional-reformist feats of its statesmen during the 1780s  but rather in the political
and social resistance to their efforts. There were two revolutions occurring in the late 18th
century America: the modern European revolution in favour of government  pursuing national
unity  energetic government and centralization of power (what scholars usually dub American
founding)  and a conservative  reactionary counter-revolution in favour of liberty  defending
local rights and liberal individualism against the encroaching political authority. This is a
book about this liberal counter-revolution and its ideological  political and cultural sources
and central protagonists. The central analytical argument of the book is that America before
the Revolution was a stateless  spontaneous political order that evolved culturally 
politically and economically in isolation from the modern European trends of state-building and
centralization of power. The book argues  then  that a better model for understanding America
is a decoupled modernization hypothesis  in which social modernity is divested from the
politics of modern state and tied with the pre-modern social institutions.

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