Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century presents ten new essays on central themes of the American Founding period by some of today's preeminen

New insights into the interplay of American politics, religion, sex, and revolution in the 18th century.

On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory expectations about the political p

Examines the effects of power, space, church, government, and business on American freedom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.