An outstanding examination of the crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689. A finalist for the National Book Award for history in 1973, the book is now available in paperback with a 1987 introduction by the author.

"Lovejoy has now related this whole [period of history] more fully than it has ever been told before. His research is thorough, and his reach in time and space is impressive . . . a judicious and significant book, the best we now have on the subject"-- New York Times Book Review.

"A long-awaited assessment of those critical upheavals that disrupted the American colonies from Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 to the major revolts in New England, New York, and Maryland in 1689. [Lovejoy's] interpretation is decidedly neo-Whig, which should provoke a fine narrative of the period and a most provocative comparison of these important revolutions, a comparison that should challenge all students of the colonial political process." - The American Historical Review

DAVID S. LOVEJOY us a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught from 1960 to 1983. He received a B.S. from Bowdoin College in 1941 (and Distinguished Bowdoin Educator Award in 1980) and Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954. LOVEJOY has taught at Northwestern and Brown universities and a t Marlboro Colege in Vermont. Her was a Fulbright Lecturer in Scotland and has received Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation fellowships. He is the author of Religious Enthusiam in the New World: Heresy to Revolution. His home is in Madison and in Oxford-shire, England.