{"product_id":"the-american-counter-revolution-in-favor-ivan-jankovic-9783030037321","title":"The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty: How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan Jankovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030037320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030037321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Ivan Jankovic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089040879871,"sku":"9783030037321","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_81a0229f-ca1e-4ecb-9a0d-0c443d86aae8.jpg?v=1769107872","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-american-counter-revolution-in-favor-ivan-jankovic-9783030037321","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}