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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Foreword, pg. vii*Contributors, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The Results of the English Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century, pg. 23*2. A Bourgeois Revolution?, pg. 109*3. Crisis and Regrouping in the Political Elites: England from the 1630s to the 1660s, pg. 140*4. Three British Revolutions and the Personality of Kingship, pg. 165*5. Tradition and Innovation and the Great Rebellion, pg. 208*6. The Bill of Rights: Epitome of the Revolution of 1688-89, pg. 224*7. Two American Revolutions, 1689 and 1776, pg. 244*8. 1776: The Revolution Against Parliament, pg. 265*9. Parliament, Empire, and Parliamentary Law, 1776, pg. 289*10. English Radicalism in the Age of George III, pg. 323*11. The Great Inversion, or Court Versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816), pg. 368*Index, pg. 455
