“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.” TryingStillsHandsAgePastSpiritLiteratureProcessImaginationErrorsBusyVariousGravesClockComplexityHistorianObservingMeasuring Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun
“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.” GivingLightSpiritLibertyRolesWrittenGenerationsRevolutionOffersAccountsHistoricalComplicatedBritishRisingEmpiresHistorianDedicatedFinestExileAmerican RevolutionStunningBritish EmpireRevisionAftermathLoyalistsReinterpretation Author:Sean Wilentz