@article{839965,
      recid = {839965},
      author = {Yirush, Craig,},
      title = {Settlers, liberty, and empire the roots of early American  political theory, 1675-1775 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {ix, 277 p.},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Settlers, Liberty, and Empire traces the emergence of a  revolutionary conception of political authority on the far  shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on  the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the  realm, claim indigenous territory, and establish new  governments by consent, this radical set of ideas  culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most  scholarship on early American political theory, Craig  Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of  the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the  political ideas of settler elites in British North America  emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious  Revolution in America and the American Revolution against  Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world  characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political  rivalry, and the ongoing presence of powerful Native  American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation  for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/839965},
}