The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770–1800 by Lynn Hunt. This insightful work of history explores the profound transformation in how people in Europe and British North America understood themselves and society during the late eighteenth century available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/41PbRXK

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Discover how seemingly small shifts, from the rise of tea consumption and new forms of visual imagery to debates about national debt and the changing roles of women, fueled a revolution in attitudes towards individual autonomy and social belonging.... Hunt compellingly argues that the modern world of participatory democracy emerged from this fundamental change in self-perception, where ord ...