The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political ThoughtSharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. |
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The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought Barry Alan Shain. Copyright © 1994 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press , 41 William Street , Princeton , New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
Standing The Public Good the Individual and the Community | 19 |
Three Discourses in Defense of the Public Good | 23 |
A Sketch of 18thCentury American Communalism | 48 |
Localism and the Myth of American Individualism | 84 |
Three Leading Views of the Individual Plus One | 116 |
The Meaning of Liberty in the Revolutionary Era | 151 |
Spiritual Liberty The Quintessential Liberty | 193 |
Corporate Liberty Political and Civil | 241 |
The Concept of Slavery Libertys Antithesis | 289 |
I have said enough to put the character of AngloAmerican civilization in its true light It is the result of two distinct elements which in other places ha... | 320 |
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