Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution

by Richard Price

Richard Price was a loyal, although dissenting, subject of Great Britain who thought the British treatment of their colonies as wrong, not only prudentially, financially, economically, militarily, and politically, but, above all, morally wrong. He expressed these views in his first pamphlet early in 1776. It concluded with a plea for the cessation of hostilities by Great Britain and reconciliation. Its analyses, arguments, and conclusions, however,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822304007
• ISBN13: 9780822304005
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.