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(Paperback)
By: Barry Alan Shain
ISBN: 9780691029122
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This work reconsiders what early Americans meant by such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty and slavery. It questions whether 18th-century Americans understood these terms in an individualistic manner, revealing an understanding based on reformed Protestant communalism.
