![]() ![]() When we published Bailyn’s revised and greatly expanded iteration of that original essay as The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution two years later, the book was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize. Bailyn explains that close analysis of this literature allows one to penetrate deeply into the colonists’ understanding of the events of their time to grasp more clearly than is otherwise possible the sources of their ideas and their motives in rebelling and, above all, to see the subtle, fundamental transformation of eighteenth-century constitutional thought that took place during these years of controversy and that became basic doctrines in America thereafter. ![]() ![]() In addition to the texts of 14 pamphlets selected for their importance in the growth of American political and social ideas, their role in the debate with England over constitutional rights, and their literary merit, that first volume would include a book-length General Introduction from editor Bernard Bailyn entitled “The Transforming Radicalism of the American Revolution.” As described in the catalog copy: The catalog announcing the Harvard University Press books slated for publication in Spring 1965 included notice of the forthcoming release of Volume I of Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776. ![]()
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