This book focuses on the political thought of late eighteenth-century Britain, discussing the crisis of the early modern state provoked by the American revolution and setting it in its European context.
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' ... Miller triumphantly succeeds in a work of sustained sophistication and remarkably wide learning ... a powerful and remarkable vision which demands attention.' Jonathan Clark, The Times Literary Supplement
This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain sparked off by the American revolution. It sets the crisis in its European context and traces the evolution of influential political ideas which continue to resonate today in the principles of 'one man, one vote' and 'freedom of thought'.
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