The First American Revolution Author:Clinton Rossiter The First American Revolution - The American Colonies on the Eve of Independence — From his monumental study of the political ideas that sustained the rise of liberty in Colonial and Revolutionary America, Seedtime of the Republic, Clinton Rossiter has culled the present volume. The First American Revolution is a selective account of the governm... more »ent, religion, social structure, and intellectual life of the thirteen colonies.
What I have tried to do," Mr. Rossiter states, "is to describe the total envionment as one extremely favorable to the rise of liberty, and to single out those facets which seemed most influential in creating this environment." Seedtime of the Republic was published in 1953 and won a Bancroft Prize, the Woodrow Wilson Award, and the Book Prize of the Institute of Early American History.« less