Settlers, Liberty, and Empire : the Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675-1775 /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yirush, Craig, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Subjects:
To 1799
Political science > United States > History > 17th century.
Political science > United States > History > 18th century.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Politics and government
Political science.
United States > Politics and government > To 1775.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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