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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Author: Bernard Bailyn
ISBN-13: 9780674443020
ISBN-10: 0674443020
Publication Date: 3/1/1992
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Belknap Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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If you are interested in the American Revolution, your education is not complete until you have read this book by one of America's premier historians.
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The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power." They wished, in other words, to mend a broken system and improve upon it. In doing so they drew on many traditions of political and social thought, ranging from English conservative philosophers to exponents of the continental Enlightenment, from backward-looking interpretations of ancient Roman civilization to forward-looking views of a new American people. Bailyn carefully examines these sources of sometimes conflicting ideas and considers how the framers of the Constitution resolved them in their inventive doctrine of federalism.

With this reading of the American Revolutionary Experience, Mr. Bailyn has substantially and profoundly altered the nature and direction of the inquiry on the American Revolution. In the process he has also erected a new framework for interpreting the entire first half-century of American national history...A landmark in American historiography. (American Quarterly )

Tightly written and politically sophisticated...In the field of American Revolutionary Studies Bailyn's book must henceforth occupy a position of first rank. (Saturday Review )

The most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. (History )

One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book. (New York Times Book Review )

A distinguished achievement. Mr. Bailyn writes with the authority and integrity that derive from a thorough mastery of the material. His meticulous scholarship is matched with perceptive analysis. (New York Review of Books )
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Winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes.


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