Book contents
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Computational Methodologies for the History of Ideas
- Part II Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
- 4 The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800
- 5 The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century
- 6 Republicanism in the Founding of America
- 7 Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth
- 8 The Idea of Commercial Society: Changing Contexts and Scales
- 9 The Age of Irritability
- 10 On Bubbles and Bubbling: The Idea of ‘The South Sea Bubble’
- 11 Embedded Ideas: Revolutionary Theory and Political Science in the Eighteenth Century
- 12 Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960
- Index
6 - Republicanism in the Founding of America
from Part II - Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
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Book contents
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Computational Methodologies for the History of Ideas
- Part II Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas
- 4 The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800
- 5 The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century
- 6 Republicanism in the Founding of America
- 7 Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth
- 8 The Idea of Commercial Society: Changing Contexts and Scales
- 9 The Age of Irritability
- 10 On Bubbles and Bubbling: The Idea of ‘The South Sea Bubble’
- 11 Embedded Ideas: Revolutionary Theory and Political Science in the Eighteenth Century
- 12 Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960
- Index
Summary
Can the claim that the United States of America was founded on the principles of republicanism? This chapter uses digital humanities approaches and the tools developed by the Cambridge Concept Lab to pose this question, and it concludes that such a contention must be false. The chapter demonstrates that the idea of republicanism, as an ideology or set of beliefs about the nature of government and society was not availlable to the colonists at the time of the founding.
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- Explorations in the Digital History of IdeasNew Methods and Computational Approaches, pp. 122 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023