BRITISH REACTIONS TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Journal Title: Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta Seria Istorie - Year 2011, Vol 8, Issue 0
Abstract
The American Revolution was the first great modern revolution and its consequences have been felt right up to the present day. The American Revolution has produced the oldest surviving written constitution in the world. It created the largest republic and the most liberal political system in the modern world and it helped to establish the strongest and most dynamic nation state on earth. Because of its subsequent importance as the founding event of the most powerful and influential nation on earth the American Revolution has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. Not surprisingly, most of this attention has focused on the political events and the ideological debates within the American colonies themselves as the patriotic colonists resisted British imperial control and ultimately fought for their independence from the mother country. By focusing so much on what happened in the colonies, it has been easy for historians to portray the colonists as arguing and then fighting to preserve their liberties against an authoritarian imperial government in Britain. This view was propagated by the American rebels at the time and, since they were victorious and the new state they created has gone from strength to strength, this view prevails with most American opinion to this day. One still hears Americans today claiming that their country was founded by a struggle of liberty against tyranny.
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Harry Dickinson
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