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Argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, which undermined their legitimacy.

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“Well-written and well-researched, Conceived in Crisis makes an important—perhaps decisive—contribution to the problem of state formation in the American Revolution.”

Conceived in Crisis

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813944548, 978-0813944548
      ISBN10: 0813944546

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, which undermined their legitimacy.

      Trade Review
      “Pearl has written a powerful new interpretation of the American Revolution. Not only does he make a persuasive argument about the coming of the Revolution; he also explains what may have been its most important outcome—the creation of sovereign republican states capable of realizing the will of democratic majorities. It is a major scholarly contribution.”

      “Well-written and well-researched, Conceived in Crisis makes an important—perhaps decisive—contribution to the problem of state formation in the American Revolution.”

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