TY - BOOK ID - 77865684 TI - Revolutions revisited PY - 1994 SN - 080786286X 0585023948 9780585023946 9780807837986 0807837989 9780807862865 0807821365 9798890865175 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment -- United States. KW - Enlightenment. KW - Political science -- United States -- History. KW - Politics -- History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865684 AB - In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment--the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be explained and defended. Lerner first investigates how the makers of revolution sought to improve their public's aspirations and chances. He pays particular attention to Benjamin Franklin, to the tone and substance of revolutionaries' appeals on both sides of the Atlantic, ER -