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.


Format Häftad Omfång 432 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2022-12-13 ISBN 9780674278639