The Glorious Revolution In America / Edition 1

by David S. Lovejoy

Overview

An outstanding examination of the crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689. A finalist for the National Book Award for history in 1973, the book is now available in paperback with a 1987 introduction by the author.

"Lovejoy has now related this whole [period of history] more fully than it has ever been told before. His research is thorough, and his reach in time and space is impressive . . . a judicious and significant book, the best we now have on the subject"-- New York Times Book Review.

"A long-awaited assessment of those critical upheavals that disrupted the American colonies from Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 to the major revolts in New England, New York, and Maryland in 1689. [Lovejoy's] interpretation is decidedly neo-Whig, which should provoke a fine narrative of the period and a most provocative comparison of these important revolutions, a comparison that should challenge all students of the colonial political process." - The American Historical Review

DAVID S. LOVEJOY us a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught from 1960 to 1983. He received a B.S. from Bowdoin College in 1941 (and Distinguished Bowdoin Educator Award in 1980) and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954. LOVEJOY has taught at Northwestern and Brown universities and a t Marlboro Colege in Vermont. Her was a Fulbright Lecturer in Scotland and has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation fellowships. He is the author of Religious Enthusiam in the New World: Heresy to Revolution. His home is in Madison and in Oxford-shire, England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819561770
Publisher:	Wesleyan University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	423
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

DAVID S. LOVEJOY is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught from 1960 to 1983. He received a B.S. from Bowdoin College in 1941 (and Distinguished Bowdoin Educator Award in 1980) and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954. LOVEJOY has taught at Northwestern and Brown universities and a t Marlboro Colege in Vermont. Her was a Fulbright Lecturer in Scotland and has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation fellowships. He is the author of Religious Enthusiam in the New World: Heresy to Revolution. His home is in Madison and in Oxford-shire, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
“An Affayre of State”: Trade and Commerce
“An Affayre of State”: Government, Politics and Religion
The Virginia Charter and Bacon’s Rebellion
Virginia Under Culpeper and Effingham
Maryland: Colonists’ Rights and Proprietary Power
New York and the Charter of Libertyes
Massachusetts bay: Purpose and Defiance
Massachusetts Bay: Denise
His Majesty’s Real Empire in America
The Dominion of New England: The Bay Colony
The Dominion of New England : From the St. Croix to Delaware Bay
The Glorious Revolution in England
The Glorious in New England
The Glorious Revolution in New York ad Maryland
Sanction and Justification
Resistance and Dissent: The Ghost of Masaniello
Resistance and Dissent: War. Merchants, and Torries
Resettlement I
Resettlement II
Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay
Index

What People are Saying About This

Edmund S. Morgan

“Professor Lovejoy has given us for the first time a comprehensive picture of the Glorious Revolution as it affected the colonies that less than a century later declared their independence. The result is a new perspective on the American Revolution.”

Editorial Reviews

Lovejoy has now related this whole [period of history] more fully than it has ever been told before. His research is thorough, and his reach in time and space is impressive . . . a judicious and significant book, the best we now have on the subject”—New York Times Book Review

“A long-awaited assessment of those critical upheavals that disrupted the American colonies from Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 to the major revolts in New England, New York, and Maryland in 1689. [Lovejoy’s] interpretation is decidedly neo-Whig, which should provoke a fine narrative of the period and a most provocative comparison of these important revolutions, a comparison that should challenge all students of the colonial political process.”—The American Historical Review

“A meticulously detailed and sometimes quite witty exploration of the circumstances, events and ideas that culminated in [the American colonial] rebellions and the contribution of the Glorious Revolution, with its own civil war and religious turmoil, to them.” —Publishers Weekly

“The Glorious Revolution in America is a testament to the high standards of scholarship of David Lovejoy. The detailed reconstruction of interacting events in England and the North American colonies during the 1670’s and 1680’s is superbly documented.” —New England Quarterly

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