| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Lee Ward. The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. PP. x, 459. $90.00.

Browsing through Lee Ward's bibliographical entries, one wonders if he has not plunged himself into a controversy that is about as stormy as still water. As the nation's bicentennial celebration wound down, so did the heated debate over its ideological origins. By 1992, it was obvious that both Lockean and "non-Lockean" (i.e. republican) themes routinely appeared side by side in the important productions of the period. How could John Locke's clarion call for private accumulation echo so harmoniously with the well-trumpeted republican commitment to public participation? Ward invites us to revisit this pressing question and believes that he can explain why the "languages" of liberalism and republicanism could cohere, yet also diverge, and which influence was the stronger. The story extends from England's Exclusion Crisis to America's call for independence. While the parliamentary effort to prevent James II from succeeding to the English throne failed, it inspired three historically critical projects. Designed to answer Sir Robert Filmer's patriarchal defense of Stuart absolutism, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non-Monarcha (1681), John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1690), and Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) set the boundaries of Whig ideology and form the fulcrum of Ward's argument.

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