Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism

Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism
ISBN-10
0674809823
ISBN-13
9780674809826
Category
History / United States / General
Pages
317
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Patrice L. R. Higonnet

Description

Exploring the backgrounds of the American and French revolutions, Higonnet finds that dominant American ideology welded together strands of individualist and communitarian thought under an umbrella of virtue, while most Frenchmen, by contrast, were still suspicious of economic individualism. Whereas in America both the rights of the individual and the interests of the community were protected in a pluralistic Federal system, in France these two forces remained at loggerheads. This resulted in politics of consensus in America and generated political conflict in France. ISBN 0-674-80982-3: $27.50.

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