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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Enlightenment as Revolution
1. The Revolution in Ideas
The State of Nature
The Triumph of Reason
The Freedom of Thought
The Light of Experience
2. Rule Britannia?
The Widening Gap
Imperial Rulership
The Scottish Enlightenment
3. Revolutionary Americans
An American Enlightenment
Creating the Revolution
Self-Evident Truths
The Egalitarian Moment
4. France: Rule or Ruin?
Royal Paris
The Philosophes and the People
The Unmaking of a King
Becoming Revolutionary
The Madness of the Factions
5. Transforming American Politics
The Life of the Nation
The Liberty of a Person
The Happiness of the People
The First Transformation?
6. Britain: The Rules of Rulership
The Inside Game
The Revolution That Wasn’t
The Fractured Debate
7. Napoleonic Rulership
La Grande Farce
Power: The Supreme Value
The Abdication of the People
Restoration?
8. Britain: Industrializing Enlightenment
Ideas as Capital
The Tyranny of the Machine
Property and Poverty
The New Radicals
9. France: The Crowds of July
The Liberal Revolt
Tribunes of the People
Republican Revivals
10. The American Experiment
We Are All Republicans
The Democratic Majority
Liberty and Equality
The New World
11. Britain: The Fire for Reform
Strategies of Reform
Ideas as Weapons
Stumbling Toward Reform
The Dawning of a Liberal Party
12. The Negative of Liberty
People as Property
The Canker of Bondage
13. The Transformation
The Liberal Triumph
The Clash of Ideas
A New American Enlightenment?
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Also by James MacGregor Burns
About the Author
Copyright
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