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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yirush, Craig, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Jasper Maudit's 'Instructions': The Imperial Roots of Early American Political Theory
  • PART I. RESTORATION AND REBELLION: 1. English Rights in an Atlantic World; 2. The Glorious Revolution in America
  • PART II. EMPIRE: 3. Jeremiah Dummer and the Defense of Chartered Government; 4. John Bulkley and the Mohegans; 5. Daniel Dulany and the Natural Right to English law; 6. Richard Bland and the Prerogative in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia
  • PART III. REVOLUTION: 7. In Search of a Unitary Empire; 8. The Final Imperial Crisis
  • Conclusion.