Modern Revolutions in North America

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Modern Revolutions in North America
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.032

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Abstract

The Age of Revolution is generally hailed as a time of radical ruptures in the social and political history of the Western world, although its “evolutionary” beginnings in the Age of Enlightenment are undeniable. While this dynamic period in history resulted in the radical depositions of monarchies and colonial administrations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, it began with a philosophical debate between the British crown and its American colonists over the limits of freedom and popular sovereignty.

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