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The founders and the classics: Greece, Rome, and the American enlightenment
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ISBN: 0674314255 9780674314252 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press,

Republics : ancient and modern
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ISBN: 080784473X 0807844748 0807844756 9780807844731 9780807844755 9780807844748 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina press,

Virtue, commerce, and history : essays on political thought and history, chiefly in the eighteenth century
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ISBN: 0521276608 0521257018 0511720505 0511868790 9780521276603 9780511720505 9780521257015 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print.


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Antike als Modell in Nordamerika? : Konstruktion und Verargumentierung, 1763-1809
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ISBN: 9783486705836 3486705830 3110650843 Year: 2011 Volume: 55 Publisher: Munchen : Oldenbourg:

The foundations of American citizenship : liberalism, the Constitution, and civic virtue
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ISBN: 1280525878 0195361318 9780195361315 9781280525872 9786610525874 6610525870 9780195070675 0195070674 0195070674 0197733425 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This study explores the political world view of the individuals who created the American Revolution, focusing on their new conceptions of citizenship as expressed in the debates over the ratification in the USA of the 1787 Constitution.

A republic of men : the American founders, gendered language, and patriarchal politics
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ISBN: 0814763529 0585425116 0814747132 0814747140 9780585425115 9780814747131 9780814747148 9780814763520 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York London New York University Press

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What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood–exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that the founders committed themselves in theory to the democratic proposition that all men were created free and equal and could not be governed without their own consent, but that they in no way believed that "all men" could be trusted with equal liberty, equal citizenship, or equal authority. The founders developed a "grammar of manhood" to address some difficult questions about public order. Were America's disorderly men qualified for citizenship? Were they likely to recognize manly leaders, consent to their authority, and defer to their wisdom? A Republic of Men compellingly analyzes the ways in which the founders used a rhetoric of manhood to stabilize American politics.

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