The Last War of Religion
David Armitage, 9 June 1994
The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World
by J.C.D. Clark.
Cambridge, 404 pp., £35, October 1993,0 521 44510 8 Show More
by J.C.D. Clark.
Cambridge, 404 pp., £35, October 1993,
The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification. Vol. I
edited by Bernard Bailyn.
Library of America, 1214 pp., $35, July 1993,0 940450 42 9 Show More
edited by Bernard Bailyn.
Library of America, 1214 pp., $35, July 1993,
“... All rebellions resemble one another, but every revolution is revolutionary in its own way. The French wrote the classic modern script for revolution – utopian, transformative and bloody – but even they recognised that the prologue to their drama had been playing in America since 1776. When viewed from 1789 or 1793, however, the American Revolution looked distinctly unrevolutionary ... ”