Joyce Appleby was Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is a superb collection of essays. Appleby is the foremost critic of the so-called ‘republican synthesis’ that has come to pervade a number of disciplines besides history… The debate over republicanism is still very much alive and her essays reveal a sharp and shrewd analytical mind ideally equipped for argument. These pieces are less traditional reconstructions of the past and more historical polemics, and as polemics they have had and will continue to have a major influence on our understanding of early American history.

• Introduction: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination I. Political and Economic Liberalism in Seventeenth-Century England 2. Locke, Liberalism, and the Natural Law of Money 3. Modernization Theory and Anglo-American Social Theories 4. Ideology and the History of Political Thought 5. Liberalism and the American Revolution 6. The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology 7. John Adams and the New Republican Synthesis 8. The American Heritage--The Heirs and the Disinherited 9. The American Model for the French Revolutionaries 10. The "Agrarian Myth" in the Early Republic 11. Republicanism and Ideology 12. What Is Still American in Jefferson's Political Philosophy? 13. Republicanism in Old and New Contexts Sources Index

Joyce Appleby was Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is a superb collection of essays. Appleby is the foremost critic of the so-called ‘republican synthesis’ that has come to pervade a number of disciplines besides history… The debate over republicanism is still very much alive and her essays reveal a sharp and shrewd analytical mind ideally equipped for argument. These pieces are less traditional reconstructions of the past and more historical polemics, and as polemics they have had and will continue to have a major influence on our understanding of early American history.

• Introduction: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination I. Political and Economic Liberalism in Seventeenth-Century England 2. Locke, Liberalism, and the Natural Law of Money 3. Modernization Theory and Anglo-American Social Theories 4. Ideology and the History of Political Thought 5. Liberalism and the American Revolution 6. The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology 7. John Adams and the New Republican Synthesis 8. The American Heritage--The Heirs and the Disinherited 9. The American Model for the French Revolutionaries 10. The "Agrarian Myth" in the Early Republic 11. Republicanism and Ideology 12. What Is Still American in Jefferson's Political Philosophy? 13. Republicanism in Old and New Contexts Sources Index