Table of Contents for Shain, B.A.: The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought.

The Myth of American Individualism:
The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought
Barry Alan Shain

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction 3
Pt. 1 Standing: The Public Good, the Individual, and the Community
Ch. 1 Three Discourses in Defense of the Public Good 23
Ch. 2 A Sketch of 18th-Century American Communalism 48
Ch. 3 Localism and the Myth of American Individualism 84
Ch. 4 Three Leading Views of the Individual, Plus One 116
Pt. 2 The Meaning of Liberty in the Revolutionary Era
Ch. 5 A Delusive Similarity: (Ordered) Liberty and Freedom 155
Ch. 6 Spiritual Liberty: The Quintessential Liberty 193
Ch. 7 Corporate Liberty: Political and Civil 241
Ch. 8 The Concept of Slavery: Liberty's Antithesis 289
Afterword 320
Bibliography 329
Index 379