The Lockean moment : the language of rights on the eve of the American Revolution : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 15 May 2001
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The Lockean moment : the language of rights on the eve of the American Revolution : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 15 May 2001
Oxford University Press, 2001
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Professor Breen discusses the role of ideas in the achievement of American independence. This topic has engaged leading American historians - Bernard Bailyn of Harvard University and Gordon Wood of Brown University for example - for a long time, and their work generally has divorced considerations of popular mobilization from the formal history of ideas. He raises fresh questions about the relation between ideas and politics, suggesting why the current interpretive literature has tended to undervalue the force of 'rights talk' in creating new and powerful solidarities in late colonial America.
by "Nielsen BookData"
