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Bernard Bailyn ist ein amerikanischer Historiker, der besonders mit Arbeiten zur amerikanischen Kolonial- und Revolutionszeit hervorgetreten ist.

Er studierte zunächst am Williams College und schließlich an der Harvard University , wo er seit 1949 auch lehrt. Als sein bedeutendstes Werk gilt The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution , das in der Historiographie der amerikanischen Revolution einen Paradigmenwechsel zur Folge hatte. Bailyn zeichnete hierin den prägenden Einfluss radikaler englischer Whigs des 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhunderts auf die Ideologie der amerikanischen Revolutionäre nach. Ferner zählt er zu den Begründern der so genannten „atlantischen Geschichte,“ eines seit den 1980er Jahren sehr fruchtbaren Forschungsansatzes, der die oft beengende Perspektive nationaler Geschichtsschreibung zu überwinden und die Beziehungen zwischen Europa, Afrika und Amerika in einem räumlich weiter gefassten Rahmen zu fassen sucht. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. September 1922
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“Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 36.

“The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 59.

“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218.

“The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273.

“The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138.

“What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 57.

“The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26.

“On the evening of October 14, 1774, the Massachusetts delegates were invited to Carpenters' Hall by a group of Philadelphians to do "a little business."”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 268.

“The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118

“Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, sel denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 65.

“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198.

“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231.

“Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203.

“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 55.

“The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; …”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

FOREWORD, p. v.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237.

“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, Chapter VI, p. 305.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

“Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1.

“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225

“That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; …”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 132.

“In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173.

“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160.

“It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 160.

“The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 162.

“In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302.

“The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182.

“In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.”

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Bernard Bailyn buch The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Quelle: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167.

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