From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Introduction: Enlightenment as revolution?
The revolution in ideas. The state of nature
Rule Britannia? The widening gap
The Scottish enlightenment
Revolutionary Americans. An American enlightenment
France: rule or ruin? Royal Paris
The Philosophes and the people
The madness of the factions
Transforming American politics. The life of the nation
The happiness of the people
The first transformation?
Britain: the rules of rulership. The inside game
The revolution that wasn't
Napoleonic rulership. La grande farce
The abdication of the people
Britain: industrializing enlightenment. Ideas as capital
The tyranny of the machine
France: the crowds of July. The liberal revolt
The American experiment. We are all republicans
Britain: the fire for reform. Strategies of reform
The dawning of a liberal party
The negative of liberty. People as property
The transformation. The liberal triumph
A new American enlightenment?
