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The American Revolution is explained through three pressures: British limits on westward expansion, British attempts to tax colonists for defense, and mercantilist trade restrictions.
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American Revolution
The Junto and similar book clubs become, in Jiang’s telling, intellectual infrastructure for the American Revolution by training wealthy colonists in Locke, Hobbes, classical republics, and political conspiracy.
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The Junto and similar book clubs become, in Jiang’s telling, intellectual infrastructure for the American Revolution by training wealthy colonists in Locke, Hobbes, classical republics, and political conspiracy.
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Jiang interprets the Gettysburg Address as redefining independence as a revolution in human affairs and an experiment in human liberation, not merely separation from Britain.
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America destroys inherited tradition and reverence for kings but fails to replace that authority with equally revered law.
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The next lecture is announced as the American Revolution, continuing the course sequence from Britain into America.
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Jiang reads Kant as defending an absolutist understanding of freedom of expression, including speech others might hate, because censorship denies people's capacity to judge.
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Jiang marks the French Revolution as fundamentally idealistic because it believes people can reason toward the common interest, whereas the American Revolution denies this premise.
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The next class will move from the gunpowder revolution into the Enlightenment, which Jiang frames as paving the way for the American and French revolutions.
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"immigrants will be forced to move out west to settle territory in the western frontier of these colonies. Okay? But as you know, these..."
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"In fact, at this stage in history, it is the British people, not the American people, that are paying for the defense of these..."
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"...the British crown. And this will, of course, culminate in the American Revolution. Okay? The War of Independence of 1776. Also, what's really important..."
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"That if you do work hard, if you are honest, and if you save a lot of money, then it's possible for you to..."
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"...important because these book clubs will become the foundation of the American Revolution. Right? Right? So these brothers will meet in these clubs. And..."
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"...Does that make sense? Okay? This is the foundation of the American Revolution. All right. So not only did America become very wealthy very..."
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"...so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Okay? So, the American Revolution, it is an experiment in the possibilities of human liberation."
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"...we put in their place. So what he's saying is the American Revolution was about destroying tradition about destroying civilization but they failed to..."
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"respect and revere ideas and things and laws does that make sense okay so in theory America is a rule of law nation but..."
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"...sense all right great okay so next class we do the American Revolution all right you"
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"...becomes a foundation for of course the American Constitution or the American Revolution in view of this he as preacher is not free and..."
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"...this is the major divergence between the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The French Revolution, it is fundamentally idealistic."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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