The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution
by
John P. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive...