A finely written, skillfully researched study by a University of
Wisconsin historian. To the surprise of the British, the ouster of
King James by the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 had a riveting
effect on the American colonies. Some had a spell of
self-government; in New England, New Jersey, New York, and
Maryland, the form of rule was changed for good. Lovejoy shows how
the 18th-century colonialist demand for equal rights began to take
shape in the late 1600's. The special strength of the book,
however, is its charting of internecine American frictions in the
1670's up through the Glorious Revolution shakeups. Control of
customs and taxation, the "growing elite quality of government" in
Virginia, for example, the question of royal land grants, and the
burden of paying for provincial governments led to considerable
ferment. Moreover, natural and unnatural disasters ranging from the
low price of tobacco to the French and Indian terror in the North
exacerbated political strife, as did religious conflicts. The
colonists' efforts to get protection against the King on the one
hand and redress of grievances against their own assemblies on the
other were articulated via various conceptions of empire, colonial
policy, and English citizenship. Unfortunately, Lovejoy does not
look very hard into mercantile theory and practice, but stays on
the empirical level of the Lords of Trade, the merchant leaders,
and so forth. The book offers no great interpretive depth or
innovation, but rather a lively sense of a developing political
consciousness and a complex duster of societies, as well as an
exemplary use of primary source material. (Kirkus Reviews)
An outstanding examination of the crises that lead to the colonial
rebellions of 1689. A finalist for the National Book Award for
history in 1973, the book is now available in paperback with a 1987
introduction by the author. "Lovejoy has now related this whole
period of history] more fully than it has ever been told before.
His research is thorough, and his reach in time and space is
impressive . . . a judicious and significant book, the best we now
have on the subject"-- New York Times Book Review. "A long-awaited
assessment of those critical upheavals that disrupted the American
colonies from Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 to the major revolts in New
England, New York, and Maryland in 1689. Lovejoy's] interpretation
is decidedly neo-Whig, which should provoke a fine narrative of the
period and a most provocative comparison of these important
revolutions, a comparison that should challenge all students of the
colonial political process." - The American Historical Review DAVID
S. LOVEJOY us a professor emeritus of history at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught from 1960 to 1983. He received
a B.S. from Bowdoin College in 1941 (and Distinguished Bowdoin
Educator Award in 1980) and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954.
LOVEJOY has taught at Northwestern and Brown universities and a t
Marlboro Colege in Vermont. Her was a Fulbright Lecturer in
Scotland and has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation
fellowships. He is the author of Religious Enthusiam in the New
World: Heresy to Revolution. His home is in Madison and in
Oxford-shire, England.
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