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.
- ISBN10 0199513996
- ISBN13 9780199513994
- Publish Date 18 October 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 March 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 24
- Language English