From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: Enlightenment as revolution? --
The revolution in ideas. The state of nature --
The freedom of thought --
The light of experience --
Rule Britannia? The widening gap --
The Scottish enlightenment --
Revolutionary Americans. An American enlightenment --
Creating the revolution --
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 --
Napoleonic rulership. La grande farce --
Power: the supreme value --
The abdication of the people --
Britain: industrializing enlightenment. Ideas as capital --
The tyranny of the machine --
France: the crowds of July. The liberal revolt --
Tribunes of the people --
The American experiment. We are all republicans --
The Democratic majority --
Britain: the fire for reform. Strategies of reform --
Stumbling toward reform --
The dawning of a liberal party --
The negative of liberty. People as property --
The transformation. The liberal triumph --
A new American enlightenment?
