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Author Dworetz, Steven M., 1947- author.

Title The unvarnished doctrine : Locke, liberalism, and the American Revolution / Steven M. Dworetz
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents The Historiographic Revolution: The Rise of "Cato" and the Decline of Locke in American Revolutionary Thought -- A Discourse on Method -- The Lockean Response to British "Innovations" Historiography and the Interpretation of Political Theory -- Theistic Liberalism in the Teaching of the New England Clergy -- History, Myth, and the Secular Salvation of American Liberalism
Summary In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution-the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of ""America's Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke, "" in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the ""spirit of capitalism, "" a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo St
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (ages [193]-240) and index
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Subject Locke, John, 1632-1704.
SUBJECT Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast
Locke, John. swd
Subject Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Intellectual life
Liberalism
Liberalismus
Predigt
Politische Philosophie
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364
Subject United States
USA -- Revolution.
USA -- Unabhängigkeitskrieg.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822382249
0822382245
1283062631
9781283062633