Protocols of Liberty – Communication Innovation and the American Revolution - Hardcover

"Warner's "Protocols of Liberty" offers a compelling new account of the origins of the American Revolution....This is an important book for many reasons, not the least of which is its successful bridging--perhaps transcending is a better word--of the gap between the social and ideological origins of the Revolution. Warner's analyses of both the power of language and its limits suggest new ways of thinking about discursive genres in the eighteenth century that will resonate within other scholarly projects that seek to link the so-called "core" and "peripheral" Enlightenments. At a time when media forms have played crucial roles in a series of contemporary revolutions, Warner's readings of the communications media of the American Revolution...powerfully demonstrate why the study of the eighteenth century continues to matter today."--American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies "Announcement for the Louis Gottschalk Prize "

Warner s "Protocols of Liberty" offers a compelling new account of the origins of the American Revolution....This is an important book for many reasons, not the least of which is its successful bridging perhaps transcending is a better word of the gap between the social and ideological origins of the Revolution. Warner s analyses of both the power of language and its limits suggest new ways of thinking about discursive genres in the eighteenth century that will resonate within other scholarly projects that seek to link the so-called core and peripheral Enlightenments. At a time when media forms have played crucial roles in a series of contemporary revolutions, Warner s readings of the communications media of the American Revolution...powerfully demonstrate why the study of the eighteenth century continues to matter today. --American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies "Announcement for the Louis Gottschalk Prize ""

William B. Warner is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of three books, most recently, Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.