Record details

• ISBN: 0674443012
• ISBN: 9780674443013
• Physical Description: xiii, 335 pages ; 21 cm
• Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Enlarged version of the General introduction in the author's Pamphlets of the American Revolution, v. 1, published in 1965.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The literature of revolution -- Sources and traditions -- Power and liberty : a theory of politics -- The logic of rebellion : a note on conspiracy -- Transformation: Representation and consent ; Constitution and rights ; Sovereignty -- The contagion of liberty: Slavery ; Establishment of religion ; The democracy unleashed ; "Whether some degrees of respect be not always due from inferiors to superiors."

Awards Note:

Pulitzer Prize, History, 1968.

Bancroft Prize, 1968.

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Subject:

American Revolution (1775-1783)
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.
Political science > United States > History.
War > Causes.
Political science.
United States.

Genre:

History.