Freedom - An Unruly History

Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of ¿big government,¿ who saw minimal state power as freedom¿s prerequisite. Annelien de Dijn takes on this myth. In fact, this was the view not of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutionaries who created modern democracies, but of their critics and opponents.

About the author

Annelien de Dijn is Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University and the author of French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville. Her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Independent Social Research Foundation.

Summary

Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of “big government,” who saw minimal state power as freedom’s prerequisite. Annelien de Dijn takes on this myth. In fact, this was the view not of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century revolutionaries who created modern democracies, but of their critics and opponents.

Product details

• Authors: Annelien De Dijn
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780674278639
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27863-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / World, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Popular philosophy, Political science and theory