{"product_id":"conceived-in-crisis-christopher-r-pearl-9780813944548","title":"Conceived in Crisis: The Revolutionary Creation of an American State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConceived in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies. To an equal or greater degree, it was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, which undermined their legitimacy. Factional bickering over policy, violent extralegal regulations, and the dreadful experiences of conducting an imperial war while governing a demographically growing and geographically expanding population all led colonists and imperial officials to consider reforming the colonial governments into more powerful and coercive entities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing Pennsylvania as a case study, Christopher Pearl demonstrates how this history of ineffective colonial governance precipitated a process of state formation that was accelerated by the demands of the Revolutionary War. The powerful state governments that resulted dominated the lives of ordinary people well into the nineteenth century. \u003ci\u003eConceived in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e makes sense of the trajectory from weak colonial to strong revolutionary states, and in so doing explains the limited success of efforts to consolidate state power at the national level during the early Republican period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher R. Pearl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813944546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813944548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.41w x 0.90d","brand":"Christopher R. Pearl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988968177919,"sku":"9780813944548","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c4d272d-7b58-4974-9294-82833a3360e3.jpg?v=1683297215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conceived-in-crisis-christopher-r-pearl-9780813944548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}