Author: Country CuratePublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
American Resistance Indefensible
Author: Country CurateThe Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution
Author: John Phillip ReidPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226708980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface John Phillip Reid goes on to argue that it was generally the application, not the definition, of these rights that was disputed. The sole—and critical—exception concerned the right of representation. American perceptions of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, the necessity of equal representation, and the constitutional function of consent had diverged gradually, but significantly, from British tradition. Drawing on his mastery of eighteenth-century legal thought, Reid explores the origins and shifting meanings of representation, consent, arbitrary rule, and constitution. He demonstrates that the controversy which led to the American Revolution had more to do with jurisprudential and constitutional principles than with democracy and equality. This book will interest legal historians, Constitutional scholars, and political theorists.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A catalogue of the library of the College of st. Margaret and st. Bernard, commonly called Queen's college, in the University of Cambridge
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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Author: A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard
Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Royalist Revolution
Author: Eric NelsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067473534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey Finalist, George Washington Prize A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015 Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our “founding fathers” saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal power—driven by the conviction that the Lords and Commons had usurped the just prerogatives of the monarch. “The Royalist Revolution is a thought-provoking book, and Nelson is to be commended for reviving discussion of the complex ideology of the American Revolution. He reminds us that there was a spectrum of opinion even among the most ardent patriots and a deep British influence on the political institutions of the new country.” —Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Wall Street Journal “A scrupulous archaeology of American revolutionary thought.” —Thomas Meaney, The Nation “A powerful double-barrelled challenge to historiographical orthodoxy.” —Colin Kidd, London Review of Books “[A] brilliant and provocative analysis of the American Revolution.” —John Brewer, New York Review of Books
British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785, Part II, Volume 8
Author: Harry T DickinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
First published in 2007, this collection presents a selection of British pamphlets, which represent the multi-faceted debate on both sides of the political divide in Britain. The pamphlets in this work are organised chronologically in two parts, taking the start of American armed resistance in 1775 as the dividing point. Volume 8 covers the period of 1783 to1785 and includes a consolidated index.
Catalogus Librorum, quibus aucta est Bibliotheca Collegii SS. Trinitatis ... juxta Dublin, anno exeunte Kal. Novembr. 1853. [Edited by J. H. Todd.]
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Author: Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description