Taking Tradition Seriously: Radicalism, Conservatism, and Social Change

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Acknowledgments

Craig Calhoun. The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Notes

1. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Berger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

2. Johann N. Neem, Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

3. See also Calhoun's discussion in Nations Matters: Citizenship, Solidarity, and the Cosmopolitan Dream. New York: Routledge, 2007.

4. Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. New York: Farrar, Strous, & Giroux, 2005.

5. Michael Lang, “Globalization and Its History,” Journal of Modern History 78, 04 (2006), 899–931.

6. On this point, see Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

7. Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

8. Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.

9. On this point, see Sheldon Wolin, “Contract and Birthright,” in The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, 137–50; Michael Skey, National Belonging and Everyday Life: The Significance of Nationhood in an Uncertain World. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.