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Craig Yirush - Settlers, Liberty, and Empire, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Settlers, Liberty, and Empire

The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675-1775

Av Craig Yirush

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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 the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory, Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political rivalry and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-02-28
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 520 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521193306
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Craig Yirush is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of several articles and book chapters focusing on early American political and legal ideas. Professor Yirush previously served as a Library Associates Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library and a Fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for American History.

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'Craig Yirush's important and timely book on the political ideas of eighteenth-century white settlers in North America reorients and reinvigorates the study of colonial British American political thought in exciting new directions, adding an imperial and Atlantic perspective to debates over republicanism and liberalism. The resulting analysis adds depth and sophistication to our understanding of British settlers' intellectual world before the American Revolution.' Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick

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