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Conceived in Crisis : The Revolutionary Creation of an American State /
"This book argues that the American Revolution was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, thus undermining their legitimacy, as much as the product of the imperial crisis brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgmen
- Introduction
- 1. "Perfect Strangers"
- 2. "For Want of Power"
- 3. The "Stupendous Machine"
- 4. "When the Thunder of the Law Sleeps"
- 5. "Usurping Powers"
- 6. "For the Security and Protection of the Community"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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