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Crisis: A British Defense of American Rights, 1775-1776

Editat de Neil L York
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2016
The Crisis was a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during those years, and it used unusually bold, pithy language. Neither the longevity of the effort nor the colourful language employed would be reason enough to collect and print all ninety-two issues under one cover in a modern edition. The Crisis lays claim to our attention because of its place in the rise of freedom of the press, its self-conscious attempt to create a transatlantic community of protest, and its targeting of the king as the source of political problems but without attacking the institution of monarchy itself. The Crisis was condemned informally by leaders in the British government, and then formally in court, as a dangerous example of seditious libel. Copies of it were publicly burned, and yet publication continued uninterrupted. The men behind The Crisis were determined to interest the British public in American affairs and were no doubt pleased when various issues were reprinted in the colonies. They played on shared beliefs and shared fears: beliefs in the existence of fundamental rights, rights beyond the reach of any government, and the fear that loss of those rights in Britains American colonies could lead to their loss in Britain itself. They denounced George III in language at once harsh and florid, and did so many months before Thomas Paines Common Sense. Even so, The Crisis did not call on Britons to overthrow monarchy with a republic, and its ardour for the Patriot cause cooled once Revolutionary Americans declared their independence. It stands as proof that strident rhetoric does not necessarily lead to radical political action. Its history also shows that ideas, once unleashed, take on a life of their own.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780865978959
ISBN-10: 0865978956
Pagini: 816
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 51 mm
Greutate: 1.32 kg
Editura: Liberty Fund Inc.
Colecția Liberty Fund Inc. (US)

Notă biografică

Neil L. York is professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including, most recently, The American Revolution, 1760-1790: New Nation as New Empire.