The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 26 July 2004

This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 28 February 2011

Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave

• Publisher : JHU Press
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• Release Date : 06 December 2022

Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 20 May 2024

"The editors hope that this collection will help to bring about a deeper understanding of the process of transplanting English liberty to overseas colonies during the first centuries of English

• Publisher : LSU Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 1989

In recent years historians of the American Revolution have become increasingly convinced that political ideas, rather than material interests, were what ultimately led American colonists to fight for independence from

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 08 December 2022

Now in its 4th edition, Revolutionary America explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815, when settlers in North America rebelled against British rule, won

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Release Date : 18 October 2019

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as

• Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
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• Release Date : 21 October 2021

Though little known to most students of the American Revolution, the British Radicals of the 1770s championed the rights of Americans while advocating parliamentary reform and denouncing British colonial policies.

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 1988

"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 12 December 2018

This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its “statesmen” during the 1780s, but rather in the political