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=====Enlightenment and the American Revolution===== | |||
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-the-age-of-atlantic-revolutions/enlightenment-and-the-american-revolution/2AC61696FC382E722B55674AC367ED27 by Cambridge University Press 20/10/23] | |||
The transatlantic intellectual movement today called “the Enlightenment” took particular forms in British North America during the American Revolution. This essay explores four interlocking Enlightenment concepts as used by eighteenth-century Americans to describe their political revolt against British monarchical rule: nature, progress, reason, and revolution. Americans appealed to nature to delegitimize claims to authority that rested on history, custom, divine access, and lineage. | |||
