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-- her book, "ratification," for about an hour. to make my name is markedly. im the chief economic officer at isi and is my privilege to introduce our speaker and the recipient of the 2011 paolucci/bagehot book award, professor pauline maier. she is the professor of american history at mit where she has taught for more than 30 years. she received her ph.d from harvard university in 1968, and has also taught at the university of massachusetts and the university of wisconsin. in addition...

university of massachusetts and the university of wisconsin. in addition to being a greatly acclaimed scholar, she is also a devoted teacher of generation of undergraduates, regularly offering a survey course in american history. her books have focused on the power of ideas and the shaping of early america. theyve also recovered the human complexity of a founding experience bring important nuance to conventional understandings. in her first book, "from resistance to revolution," coloni...

i could understand very well the french canadians didnt want to come into this revolution. the canada we know was people who went to nova scotia, some went to québec, largely. so it was a result of the revolution that the canada we know is predominantly a british .. and subsequently there was something called -- canada invited in to settle their territory. you can well imagine a population that had a substantial component of loyalists might not have been the most excited about joining...

the government. >> host: how did we get from the glorious revolution of 1688 to the american revolution of 1776? >> guest: a. [laughter] and the idea is that informed the glorious revolution cited to justify it. and for americans to justify their revolution? there was real continuity the ideas expressed from one the familiar% or other writers of the 17th century as they carried on and they were basic political truthsy. for the 18th century. >> host: what were cahal some of those ideas?...

expressed by a familiar person, john locke, other writers of the 17th century and popularizes the 18th century and they became basic political truths for americans of 18th century. >> what were those ideas? >> the government isnt determined by god. people come together, associate with each other, form compacts, to create society and governments and that they ash points officials, to serve their end, and the ideas are summarized neatly in the second paragraph of the declaration of indep...