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Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World, 1660 1832

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Paperback | 13 December 1993

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This book creates a new framework for the political and intellectual relations between the British Isles and America in a momentous period which witnessed the formation of modern states on both sides of the Atlantic and the extinction of an Anglican, aristocratic and monarchical order. Jonathan Clark integrates evidence from law and religion to reveal how the dynamics of early modern societies were essentially denominational. In a study of British and American discourse, he shows how rival conceptions of liberty were expressed in the conflicts created by Protestant dissent's hostility to an Anglican hegemony. The book argues that this model provides a key to collective acts of resistance to the established order throughout the period. The book's final section focuses on the defining episode for British and American history, and shows the way in which the American Revolution can be understood as a war of religion.

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'Jonathan Clark is the most controversial historian of his generation. ... constantly arresting, intellectually provocative and demanding ... throughout the work of a first class mind. The book will be required reading for all those interested in the period ...' Jeremy Black, The Times

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology History Regional & National History History of the Americas European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Military History American War of Independence

Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Introduction: the structure of Anglo-American political discouse
Law, Religion and Sovereignty
Constitutional Innovations and their English Antecedents
The genesis of political discourse
Transatlantic ties and their failure
The Commonwealth paradigm
Denominational discourse
The implications of theological conflict
Denominational dynamics and political rebellions
The Conflict Between Laws: Sovereignty and State Formation in the Uniter Kingdom and United States
Law, nationality and nationalism: monarchical allegiance and identity
The creation of the United Kingdom, 1536-1801: religion and the origins of the common-law doctrine of sovereignty
Sovereignty and political theory from Justinian to the English jurists
Natural law versus common law: the polarisation of a common idiom
Sovereignty, dissent, and the American rejection of the British state
Sovereignty and the New Republic: the American constitution in transatlantic perspective
The Conflict Between Denominations: The Religious Identity of Early Modern Societies
Before redefinition: politics and religion in the old society
Anglicanism as an agency of state formation: the question of establishment
Canon law, heterodoxy and the American perception of tyranny
The Anglican ascendancy as the hegemony of discourse
The Anglican dream: harmony and conflict in the English parish
The Anglican nightmare: sectarian diversity in colonial America
Predispositions: Rebellion and its Social Constituencies in the English Atlantic Empire, 1660-1800
Rebellions and their analysis in the Anglo-American tradition
Covenanters, Presbyterians and Whigs: resistance to the Stuarts in England and Scotland, 1660-1689
Colonial American rebellions, 1660-1689, and transatlantic discourse
The rights of Englishmen, the rhetoric of slavery, and rebellions in Britain and America, 1689-1760
The right of resistance and its sectarian preconditions in north America, 1760-1799
The rhetoric of resistance and its social constituencies in England and Ireland, 1733-1828: some transatlantic analogies
Denominations, social constituencies and their activation
Political Mobilisation: The American Revolution as a War of Religion
The American Revolution as a civil war
Predispositions, accelerators and catalysts: the role of theology
Heterodox and orthodox in the Church of England
The divisions and disruptions of English dissent
Heterodoxy and rebellion in colonial America, 1760-1776
Conclusion: 'Desolating Devastation': The Origins of Anglo-American Divergence
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The Language of Liberty 1660â"1832

Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World, 1660 1832

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