From the Book - First edition.
Enlightenment as Revolution
The Revolution in Ideas. The state of nature ; The triumph of reason ; The freedom of thought ; The light of experience.
Rule Britannia? : The widening gap ; Imperial rulership ; The Scottish enlightenment.
Revolutionary Americans. An American enlightenment ; Creating the revolution ; Self-evident truths ; The egalitarian movement.
France: Rule or Ruin? : Royal Paris ; The philosophes and the people ; The unmaking of a king ; Becoming revolutionary ; The madness of the factions.
Transforming American Politics. The life of the nation ; The liberty of a person ; The happiness of the people ; The first transformation?
Britain: the Rules of Rulership. The inside game ; The revolution that wasn't ; The fractured debate.
Napoleonic Rulership. La grande farce ; Power: the supreme value ; The abdication of the people ; Restoration?
Britain: Industrializing Enlightenment. Ideas as capital ; The tyranny of the machine ; Property and poverty ; The new radicals.
France: the Crowds of July. The liberal revolt ; Tribunes of the people ; Republican revivals.
The American Experiment. We are all republicans ; The Democratic majority ; Liberty and equality ; The new world.
Britain: the Fire for Reform. Strategies of reform ; Ideas as weapons ; Stumbling toward reform ; The dawning of a liberal party.
The Negative of Liberty. People as property ; The canker of bondage.
The Transformation. The liberal triumph ; The clash of ideas ; A new American enlightenment?
