Contributor
Greene, Jack P.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979, c1968.
Descriptionix, 626 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Reprint of the ed. published by Harper & Row, New York.
Note:Includes index.
Note:I. INTRODUCTION: The reappraisal of the American Revolution in recent historical literature -- II. BACKGROUND: THE EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIP: -- British mercantilism and the economic development of the thirteen collonies / Curtis P. Nettels -- The role of the lower houses of assembly in 18th-century politics / Jack P. Greene -- THE INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK: -- Two conceptions of empire / Richard Koebner -- Democracy and the American Revolution: a frame of reference / Richard Buel, Jr. -- III. CHALLENGE FROM WITHOUT: FROM GRIEVANCES TO PRINCIPLES: -- Colonial ideas of parliamentary power, 1764-1766 / Edmund S. Morgan -- "Rights imply equality": the case against admiralty jurisdiction in America, 1764-1766 / David S. Lovejoy -- FROM ANXIETIES TO DISAFFECTION: -- The logic of rebellion / Bernard Bailyn -- The Puritan ethic and the coming of the American Revolution / Edmund S. Morgan -- The moral and psychological roots of American resistance / Perry Miller -- IV. TRANSFORMATION: THE REVOLUTION IN IDEALS: -- Political experience and Enlightenment ideas in 18th-century America / Bernard Bailyn -- Republicanism and radicalism in the American Revolution: an old-fashioned interpretation / Cecelia M. Kenyon -- THE REVOLUTION IN PRACTICE: -- Government by the people: the American Revolution and the democratization of the legislatures / Jackson Turner Main -- The American Revolution: the people as constituent power / R.R. Palmer -- V. BETWEEN FEAR AND HOPE: THE FORCES IN CONTENTION: -- The Anti-Federalists, 1781-1789 / Forrest McDonald -- The founding fathers: young men of the Revolution / Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick -- THE SPECTER OF FAILURE: Experience must be our only guide: history, democratic theory, and the United States Constitution / Douglass G. Adair -- Shays's Rebellion: a political interpretation / J.R. Pole -- VI. THE TRIUMPH OF HOPE: FROM PROBLEMS TO SOLUTIONS: -- The founding fathers: a reform caucus in action / John P. Roche -- The theory of human nature in the American Constitution and the method of counterpoise / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- That politics may be reduced to a science: David Hume, James Madison, and the Tenth Federalist / Douglass G. Adair -- THE NATURE OF THE DEBATE: Democracy and The Federalist: a reconsideration of the framers' intents / Martin Diamond -- Men of little faith: the Anti-Federalists on the nature of representative government / Cecelia M. Kenyon -- VII. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES: -- The American Revolution considered as an intellectual movement / Edmund S. Morgan -- Constitutio libertatis / Hannah Arendt.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 611.
