E.G. Gallwey: “‘Ideological Origins’ at 50: Power, Rights, and the Rise and Fall of Free States”

“Originally published as an introduction to an edition of revolutionary pamphlets, entitled The Transforming Radicalism of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, together with the companion volume The Origins of American Politics, provided a periodization or intellectual chronology of the rise of revolutionary consciousness.”