The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

Author: Greene, Jack P.

Brand: Cambridge University Press

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 198

Release Date: 25-10-2010

Part Number: 9780521132305

Details: "Who better than Jack Greene to bring us back to the unfinished business of explaining how conflicting understandings of British law paved the path to revolution? The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution makes clear exactly how uncertainties abot the authority of the Crown and Parliament pushed the colonists from conciliation to intransigence."---Joyce Appleby, University of California. Los Angeles

"The fruit of half a century of research and reflection, Greene's masterly book restores legal pluralism and constitutional controversy to their proper place among the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution."---David Armitage, Harvard University

"Jack P. Greene, one of the most gifted and prolific historians of our time, has given us a concise and incisive account of the constitutional origins of the American Revolution. It is a magnificent work of historical analysis - it should shape our understanding of the causes of the Revolution for decades to come." -Richard R. Beeman, University of Pennsylvania

"In this book Jack P. Greene shows why he is the dean of the constitutional historians of the eighteenth-century British Empire: he presents us with the most incisive and deeply researched account of the constitutional origins of the American Revolution ever written."---Gordon S. Wood, Brown University

EAN: 9780521132305

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English