Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
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Full Title

Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
Author(s)

Sarah L. Swedberg
Edition
ISBN

9781498573870, 9781498573863, 9781498573887
Publisher

Bloomsbury USA
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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