An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of
the causes and consequences of the American Revolution With America
before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected
trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in
France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy
relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social
movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their
seemingly deep internal antagonisms. Elster documents the
importance of the radical uncertainty about their opponents that
characterized both British and American elites and reveals the
often neglected force of enthusiasm, and of emotions more
generally, in shaping beliefs and in motivating actions. He
provides the first detailed examinations of “divide and rule”
as a strategy used on both sides of the Atlantic and of the rise
and fall of collective action movements among the Americans. Elster
also explains how the gradual undermining in America of the British
imperial system took its toll on transatlantic relations and
describes how state governments and the American Confederation made
crucial institutional decisions that informed and constrained the
making of the Constitution. Drawing on a wide range of historical
sources and on theories of modern social science, Elster brings
together two fields of scholarship in innovative and original ways.
The result is a unique synthesis that yields new insights into some
of the most important events in modern history.
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