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Yirush Latin translations by Kathleen Alvis Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents against taxes arbitrarily imposed by a rich and extensive selection of the royal officials without local consent or political literature produced in and about parliamentary authority, but simply in colonial British America during the the king’s name. Each of the selections century before the American Revolution. is preceded by a short, substantive Most colonial political pamphlets and introductory essay that clarifies the broadsides were printed in London, but context and content of the sources. even in the mid-seventeenth century some writings were published in New As the editors write in their England, which then had the only printing introduction, these writings speak presses in British America. With the directly to such themes in the history expansion of printing to most of the of liberty as the nature and source of IN THREE VOLUMES colonies during the last decade of the corporate and individual rights, the importance of due process and the rule of 2018 | 6 x 9 | 2,264 pages seventeenth and the first three decades of the eighteenth century, however, law for the preservation of those rights, Introduction, editors’ note, translator’s the number of political polemical the centrality of private property and note, headnotes, index publications increased exponentially local autonomy in a free polity, and the throughout colonial British America, from ability of people to pursue their domestic Hardcover happiness. ISBN 978-0-86597-899-7 Barbados to Nova Scotia. The number $72.00 | £50.95 of publications dealing with political Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor questions increased in every decade after in the Humanities, Emeritus, Johns Hopkins This title is available as an ebook for purchase on 1710, to become a veritable flood by the University, where he was a member of the Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 1750s. Department of History for thirty-nine years. He has published widely on colonial British America Exploring the Bounds of Liberty is an and the American Revolution, most recently ideal introduction to the rich, hitherto Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, only lightly examined literature produced 1600–1900 (2010); Constitutional Origins of the in and about the British colonies between American Revolution (2011); Celebrating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century 1680 and 1770. It provides easy access to Britain (2013); Creating the British Atlantic: Essays key but little-discussed political writings, on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity illuminating important political debates (2011); and Settler Jamaica: A Social Portrait of the in the early-modern British empire and 1750s (2016). giving crucial context for much better- Craig B. Yirush is an Associate Professor of known tracts of the American Revolution. History at UCLA. Educated at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge University, The selections are presented in and the Johns Hopkins University, he teaches chronological sequence, from the earliest, and writes about the intellectual history of the William Penn’s “The Excellent Priviledge seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British world. He is the author of Settlers, Liberty, and of Liberty and Property” (1687), to the Empire: The Roots of American Political Theory, latest, an anonymous 1774 protest 1675–1775. 2020 CATALOG 1 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS AMERICAN HISTORY Essays by “The Free Republican,” 1784–1786 By Benjamin Lincoln, Jr. Edited and with an Introduction by Philip C. Mead and Gordon S. Wood This is the first modern publication of Lincoln’s essays anticipate John ten essays published in the popular Adams’s Defence of the American Boston newspaper The Independent Constitutions (1787) on every major Chronicle, a significant intellectual event point. It is doubtful that Adams read in Massachusetts politics. the essays, but the educated elites in Massachusetts had been discussing the The essays deal primarily with the problems of organizing government problem of mixed government in a since 1776. The editors believe republic. Lincoln writes, “Two distinct that Lincoln’s essays grew out of a and different orders of men seems conversation that Massachusetts people incident to every society,” and these “two were having about the problem of a contending interests,” fed by a “spirit of bicameral legislature in a republic. The jealousy and distrust,” would always be in publication of these essays may provoke dispute with one another. “Whether the an entirely new appraisal of the political parties to the contests style themselves 2016 | 4¾ x 7½ | 119 pages thinking of the founding era. the Rich and the Poor, the Great and the Editors’ introduction, index Small, the High and the Low, the Elders Philip C. Mead is historian and curator of and People, Patricians and Plebeians, the Museum of the American Revolution in Paperback Nobility and Commons, still,” the Free Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-0-86597-802-7 Republican writes, “the source and $12.00 | £8.95 Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University effects of the dispute are the same.” Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He This title is available as an ebook for purchase on is the author of many works, including The Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes. Lincoln saw this division of men Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), directly linked with property: “Power, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and or the ability of controlling others, ever the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993, “The glare of has been, and ever will be attached to and Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009), which was property. The glare of wealth, and given the Association of American Publishers wealth, and the splendor of its favours, will create Award for History and Biography in 2009, the an influence which no civil constitution American History Book Prize by the New York can control.” To Lincoln the solution was Historical Society for 2010, and the Society the splendor of the Cincinnati History Prize in 2010. In obvious: “Let us therefore regulate an 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities of its favours, evil we cannot prevent.” The interests of Medal by President Obama and the Arthur the “Few” and of the “Many” should be M. Schlesinger Jr. Award from the Society of represented in a house of a bicameral American Historians. will create legislature with the executive preserving the balance between the two parties. “A an influence balance,” Lincoln writes, “supposes three things, the two scales and the hand that which no civil holds it.” constitution can control.” 2020 CATALOG 2 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS AMERICAN HISTORY The American Liberty and Order Republic The First American Party Struggle Edited and with an Introduction by Primary Sources