- 277 pages
- English
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Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
- Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Insanity and Confinement in an Age of Liberty
- Chapter 2
- The Many Madnesses of Colonial Protest
- Chapter 3
- Impolitic Madmen
- Chapter 4
- The Folly and Madness of War, 1775–1783
- Chapter 5
- “The Whole Country Is Now in a State of Madness”
- 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
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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