On the ideological origins of the American Revolution
Doesn’t that title make me sound astoundingly intellectual? It certainly does.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Prof. Bernard Bailyn is an incredibly engaging work of history arguing that the American Revolution was primarily an intellectual, politically oriented struggle that began in the early 1760s. The work encourages students of history (and everyone else for that matter) to view colonial America’s struggle with the British leviathan in an entirely new light and not merely as a war. Although the subject matter can be a tad boring, Bailyn readily engages his readers with question after question, ponderance after ponderance. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Revolutionary Age of American History.
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April 13th, 2005 at 9:33 am
what a hottie!
April 20th, 2005 at 11:59 am
Bring this home this summer and I’ll try to stretch my limited acedemic abilities and give it a read!