The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution : Enlarged Edition (Edition 25) (Paperback)

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This is a great exploration into how the thinking of the founding fathers and those around them influenced and shaped the revolution.

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Contrasts other histories of the American Revolution (from Charles Beard onwards) which posit that the AR was solely an economic struggle of the landed gentry against taxes.Textual analysis of pamp...

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In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn argues, "The American Revolution was above all else an ideological, constitutional, political struggle and not primarily a cont...

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Through pamphlets and other written documents, Bailyn explores the ideas percolating in the American colonies-about the legitimate basis of authority, the nature of representation (whether it was l...

from heidilove

This is a great exploration into how the thinking of the founding fathers and those around them influenced and shaped the revolution.