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C.: 1922.

Andrews, C. M. _The Colonial Background of the American Revolution._ New Haven: 1924. (Stresses economic factors and the need of viewing the subject from the European angle; profitably used as companion study to Beer's _British Colonial Policy_.)

Baldwin, Alice M. _The New England Clergy and the American Revolution._ Durham, N. C.: 1928. (Prior to 1763 the clergy popularized ”doctrines of natural right, the social contract, and the right of resistance”

and principles of American const.i.tutional law.)

Beard, C. A. _The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy._ New York: 1915. (Suggestive, if _other_ factors are not neglected. See C. H.

Hull's review in _American Historical Review_, XXII, 401-3.)

Becker, Carl. _The Declaration of Independence; A Study in the History of Political Ideas._ New York: 1922. (Excellent survey of natural rights, and the extent to which this concept was influenced by Newtonianism.)

Becker, Carl. _The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers._ New Haven: 1932. (R. S. Crane observes, after calling attention to certain obscurities and confusions: ”The description of the general temper of the 'philosophers,' the characterization of the princ.i.p.al eighteenth-century historians, much at least of the final chapter on the idea of progress--these can be read with general approval for their content and with a satisfaction in Becker's prose style that is unalloyed by considerations of exegesis or terminology”

[_Philological Quarterly_, XIII, 104-6].)

Beer, George L. _British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765._ New York: 1933 [1907].

Bemis, S. F. _The Diplomacy of the American Revolution._ New York; 1935.

(Brilliant exposition of French, Spanish, Austrian, and other diplomacy relative to the Revolution. Should be supplemented by Frank Monaghan's _John Jay_.)

Bloch, Leon. _La philosophie de Newton._ Paris: 1908. (A comprehensive, standard exposition.)

Bosker, Aisso. _Literary Criticism in the Age of Johnson._ Groningen: 1930. (Reviewed by N. Foerster in _Philological Quarterly_, XI, 216-7.)

Brasch, F. E. ”The Royal Society of London and Its Influence upon Scientific Thought in the American Colonies,” _Scientific Monthly_, x.x.xIII, 336-55, 448-69 (1931). (Useful survey.)

Brinton, Crane. _A Decade of Revolutions, 1789-1799._ New York: 1934.

(Useful on the pattern of ideas a.s.sociated with the French Revolution; has a full and up-to-date ”Bibliographical Essay,” pp. 293-322, with critical commentary.)

Bullock, C. J. _Essays on the Monetary History of the United States._ New York: 1900. (Useful bibliography, pp. 275-88.)

Burnett, E. C., ed. _Letters of Members of the Continental Congress._ Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.: 1921. (Seven volumes now published include letters to 1784. Contain a ma.s.s of new material of first importance, edited with notes, cross-references, and introductions.)

Burtt, E. A. _The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; A Historical and Critical Essay._ New York: 1925.

Bury, J. B. _The Idea of Progress._ New York: 1932 (new edition).

(Standard English work on the topic. See also Jules Delvaille, _Essai sur l'histoire de l'idee de progres_ [Paris, 1910], a more encyclopedic book.)

Channing, Edward. _A History of the United States._ New York: 1912.

(Volumes II-III.)

Clark, H. H. ”Factors to be Investigated in American Literary History from 1787 to 1800,” _English Journal_, XXIII, 481-7 (June, 1934).

(Suggests the genetic interrelations of cla.s.sical ideas; neocla.s.sicism; the scientific spirit, rationalism, and deism; primitivism and the idea of progress; physical America and the frontier spirit; agrarianism and laissez faire; Federalism versus Democracy, whether Jeffersonian or French; sentimentalism and humanitarianism; Gothicism; and conflicting currents of aesthetic theory.)

Clark, H. H., ed. _Poems of Freneau._ New York: 1929. (F. L. Pattee says of the Introduction, ”No one has ever traced out better the ramifications of French Revolution deism in America and the effects of its clash with Puritanism” [_American Literature_, II, 316-7]. Also see Clark's ”Thomas Paine's Theories of Rhetoric,” _Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters_, XXVIII, 307-39 [1933], which discusses relations.h.i.+ps between deism and literary theory.)

Clark, J. M., Viner, J., and others. _Adam Smith, 1776-1926._ Chicago: 1928. (Brilliant essays on various aspects of Smith's thought and influence. See especially Jacob Viner's ”Adam Smith and Laissez-Faire,” pp. 116-55, which shows the relations in Smith's mind between economics and religion, between laissez faire and ”the harmonious order of nature” posited by the scientific deists.)

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