Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content vii
3. INTRODUCTION: Republicanism in France and America 1
4. 1. Forced Community and Transcendental Individualism in America's First Colonies 11
5. 2. The Decay of Traditionalist Corporatism in Seventeenth-Century France 48
6. 3. An Ideology of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America 81
7. 4. Possessive Individualism and Universalist Illusion in Prerevolutionary France 121
8. 5. Public Good and Transcendental Self in the American Revolution 171
9. 6 Possessive Individualism or Determining Community in the French Revolution 218
10. EPILOGUE: The Political and Social Effects of French and American Republicanism 273
11. Notes Selected Bibliography Index
12. Notes 283
13. Selected Bibliography 291
14. Name Index 309
15. Subject Index 313