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Release date | April 2013 |
I recently re-read Pauline Maier's From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that Maier was one of the pre-eminent scholars and historians of the Revolutionary era.
In Resistance Maier sets out to detail the development in Whig thought from when it's justified to legally & morally resist a monarch and to trace the strains of that thought in America where that resistance turned into revolution.
The research is impeccable, but upon finishing it this second time (years after I'd read it the first time), I found myself somewhat disappointed in the concluding portions of the book, and there are a few criticisms I have overall.
So some quick points about the book (not a general purpose review):
This isn't to say that the book shouldn't be in your library. If you've got any interest in the American Revolution you should own this. I only have such detailed critiques because I'm wordy and because I've been trying to figure out for awhile why the conclusion to the book felt so unsatisfying to me.
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Overall I'd say definitely pick this up. Final score is probably a 4/5. I'll end up using this more as a reference for early Whig political thought and the discussion of the broader resistance to the British crown than I will for the discussion of American political thought, but YMMV.