Royalist Revolution - Monarchy and the American Founding

Informationen zum Autor Eric Nelson is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding , The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (both from Harvard), and The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought . Klappentext The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eric Nelson, Nelson Eric
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780674979772
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97977-2
• Pagine: 400
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Teorie politiche e storia delle idee; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Political science & theory, c 1500 onwards to present day, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History and Archaeology, Constitution: government & the state, American War of Independence, British Parliament