Liberty and insanity in the age of the American revolution

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    • Swedberg, Sarah L.

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Liberty and insanity in the age of the American revolution

Sarah L. Swedberg

Lexington Books, [2020]

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Summary: "In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could cause the body politic to grow mentally or physically ill. This book is recommended for students and scholars of history, political science, legal studies, sociology, literature, psychology, and public health.

目次

Chapter 1 Insanity and Confinement in an Age of Liberty Chapter 2 The Many Madnesses of Colonial Protest Chapter 3 Impolitic Madmen: Dividing into Enemy and Friend Chapter 4 The Folly and Madness of War, 1775-1783 Chapter 5 "The whole Country is now in a state of madness": Life and Government During Wartime Chapter 6 An Irrational State, 1783-1787 Chapter 7 "The Temple of Tyranny Has Two Doors," 1787-1791 Chapter 8 Party Politics and Foreign Policy, 1792-1796

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