Farewell to the Log Cabin
Colin Kidd: America’s Royalist Revolution, 18 December 2014
The Royalist Revolution
by Eric Nelson.
Harvard, 390 pp., £22.95, October 2014,978 0 674 73534 7 Show More
by Eric Nelson.
Harvard, 390 pp., £22.95, October 2014,
“... copies. Paine’s bestseller changed the terms of debate over monarchy. Following the lead of Quentin Skinner, Nelson notes that early modern English republicanism was a ‘neo-Roman’ type which focused on the discretionary powers of monarchy, not on the office itself. Enslavement was a matter of finding oneself subordinated to the will of ... ”