Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most interesting and important pamphlets to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. This debate was carried on largely in pamphlets and from the more than a thousand published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period. In between, there occurred an extraordinary contest of words between American and Britons, and among Americans themselves, which addressed all of the most fundamental issues of politics: the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights and constitutions, and sovereignty. Just twelve short years later the empire was in tatters, and the thirteen colonies proclaimed themselves the free and independent United States of America. In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War, Great Britain possessed the largest and most powerful empire the world had seen since the fall of Rome and its North American colonists were justly proud of their vital place within this global colossus. Wood presents the first volume in a stunning collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire-and created a nation Urn:lcp:americanrevoluti00gord:epub:f38fb997-73b4-4d10-b1f7-24ecbae0bc2e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier americanrevoluti00gord Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0wq3z958 Invoice 1213 Isbn 0679640576 Lccn 2001044386 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9500 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:51:59.976909 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA1144507 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrarydonation Edition Modern library ed.
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