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A nation of agents the American path to a modern self and society
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674008830
- ISBN: 0674008839
- ISBN: 0674022203 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780674022201 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 658 pages)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
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| General Note: | CatMonthString:mar.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:mar.15.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The American narrative in crisis -- I. The English origins of the American self and society. The early Puritan insurgents and the origins of agency -- The protestant revolutionaries and the emerging society of agents -- Thomas Hobbes and the founding of the liberal politics of agency -- John Locke and the mythic society of free agents -- II. The ascendancy of agency and the free new nation. The Great Awakening and the emergent culture of agency -- The revolutionary triumph of agency -- III. The dilemma of nationhood. The liberal idyll amidst republican realities -- From liberation to reversal in a world without bounds -- IV. The creation of an agency civilization. National revival as the crucible of agency character -- From sectarian discord to civil religion -- The protestant agent in liberal economics -- John Dewey and the modern synthesis -- Conclusion : The recovery of agency. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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