
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital present concerns.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9780674076662
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American RevolutionPolitical ideologyConstitutional ratification
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(1968)
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(1968)
Other awarded books from Bernard Bailyn
- Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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