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The story of the Glorious Revolution is a rich and riveting saga of palace intrigue, loyalty and shocking betrayal, and bold political and military strategizing. With narrative drive, a sure command of historical events, and unforgettable portraits of kings, queens, soldiers, parliamentarians, and a large cast of full-blooded characters, Michael Barone takes an episode that has fallen into unjustified obscurity and restores it to the prominence it deserves.
The hegemonic label is important to Barone, in that he traces the effects of the Glorious Revolution into the 20th century and beyond. The United States, he argues, was the continuing heir of the 1689 settlement, its growing strength undergirded by the same elements of law and commerce that had built the British empire. Americans eventually adopted the anti-hegemonic philosophy pursued by William and his English successors. Barone takes pleasure in noting the historical symmetry in the anti-hegemonic -- that is, anti-German -- alliance of the United States and Britain during World War II, the former led by the Dutchman Franklin Roosevelt, the latter by John Churchill's descendant Winston.
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Walter Harris
reviewed Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers on December 16, 2009
Our First Revolution
A 243-page book that would have worked better if it had been under 200 pages long; Barone is very repetitive and makes the same point several times over, often using the same words.
Disappointed that the book did not make a better attempt at linking the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 with the American Revolution nearly a century later. The premise that the political changes that preceded and followed William III's rise to power in England were a direct precedent to the American Revolution nearly a century later (hence the title) is a central thesis of the book, but he only really tries to make the case in the final (short) chapter.
Almost all of the material covers events in England, Holland, France and the rest of Europe, with very little attention to attitudes and events in the Colonies. How did the political debate impact New England and the other colonies? How much attention did the colonies pay to event leading up to William's invasion of England? Was public opinion divided into Tory and Whig factions in the Colonies. HOw did these debates impact the subsequent debate leading up to the American Revolution? All interesting issues that the author fails to address.
At least on glaring mistake; on page 20 Barone incorrectly states that John Winthrop is governor of Connecticut, not Massachusetts. I would expect better, especially from a book that purports to discuss thel ink between the Glorious Revolution and the English colonies in North America.
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