{"product_id":"the-royalist-revolution-monarchy-and-the-american-founding-9780674979772","title":"Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, George Washington Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of 2015 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGenerations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our \"founding fathers\" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. \u003ci\u003eThe Royalist Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal power--driven by the conviction that the Lords and Commons had usurped the just prerogatives of the monarch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Royalist Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking book, and Nelson is to be commended for reviving discussion of the complex ideology of the American Revolution. He reminds us that there was a spectrum of opinion even among the most ardent patriots and a deep British influence on the political institutions of the new country.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Andrew O'Shaughnessy, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A scrupulous archaeology of American revolutionary thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Thomas Meaney, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A powerful double-barrelled challenge to historiographical orthodoxy.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Colin Kidd, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" A] brilliant and provocative analysis of the American Revolution.\"\u003cbr\u003e--John Brewer, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Eric:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eric Nelson is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (both from Harvard), and \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Tradition in Republican Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491878867218,"sku":"9780674979772","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6df13329-fb06-4701-a884-e89a2e717daf.jpg?v=1730560296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-royalist-revolution-monarchy-and-the-american-founding-9780674979772","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}