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Settlers, Liberty, and Empire : the Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675-1775 /
"Settlers, Liberty, and Empire 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Settlers, Liberty, and Empire 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139011907 1139011901 9780511921599 0511921594 1139012371 9781139012379 1107214181 9781107214187 1283015978 9781283015974 9786613015976 6613015970 1139011642 9781139011648 1139011111 9781139011112 1139010840 9781139010849 1139011375 9781139011372 |