{"product_id":"9783030037321","title":"The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty : How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765-1850 by Ivan Jankovic","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310748610933,"sku":"9783030037321","price":99.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783030037321.jpg?v=1762814966","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783030037321","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}