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Conceived in Crisis: Early American Histories

Autor Christopher R Pearl
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iul 2020

Conceived in Crisis 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.

Using Pennsylvania as a case study, Christopher Pearl demonstrates how a history of ineffective colonial governance precipitated a process of state formation that was greatly accelerated by the demands of the Revolutionary War. The powerful state governments that resulted dominated the lives of ordinary people well into the nineteenth century. Many questions vital to the nascent American society--including economic development, party formation, citizenship, public education, the separation of church and state, and the entrenchment of slavery through law and regulatory policy--were answered at the state rather than the federal level. Conceived in Crisis makes sense of the trajectory from weak colonial to strong revolutionary states, and in so doing explains the limited success of efforts to consolidate state power at the national level during the early Republican period.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813944548
ISBN-10: 0813944546
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Virginia Press
Seria Early American Histories


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"This book argues that the American Revolution was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, thus undermining their legitimacy, as much as the product of the imperial crisis brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies"--