DOC Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) by Tiya Miles in History

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Settlers; Liberty; and Empire traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm; claim indigenous territory; and establish new governments by consent; this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory; Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead; he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty; geo-political rivalry; and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples; Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.