Craig Yirush is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of several articles and book chapters focusing on early American political and legal ideas. Professor Yirush previously served as a Library Associates Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library and a Fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for American History.
Introduction: Jasper Maudit's 'instructions': the imperial roots of early American political theory
Part I. Restoration and Rebellion: 1. English rights in an Atlantic world
2. The Glorious Revolution in America
Part II. Empire: 3. Jeremiah Dummer and the defense of chartered government
4. John Bulkley and the Mohegans
5. Daniel Dulany and the natural right to English law
6. Richard Bland and the prerogative in pre-revolutionary Virginia
Part III. Revolution: 7. In search of a unitary empire
8. The final imperial crisis
Conclusion.
