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Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
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2020
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7386-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7387-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 1 Insanity and Confinement in an Age of Liberty No access Pages 17 - 46
Chapter 2 The Many Madnesses of Colonial Protest No access Pages 47 - 76
Chapter 3 Impolitic Madmen No access Pages 77 - 106
Chapter 4 The Folly and Madness of War, 1775–1783 No access Pages 107 - 134
Chapter 5 “The Whole Country Is Now in a State of Madness” No access Pages 135 - 160
Chapter 6 An Irrational State, 1783–1787 No access Pages 161 - 182
Chapter 7 “The Temple of Tyranny Has Two Doors,” 1787–1791 No access Pages 183 - 210
Chapter 8 Party Politics and Foreign Policy, 1792–1796 No access Pages 211 - 234
