id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt th83kw55x3d Christopher J. Flanagan Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795 2019 .txt text/plain 339 12 33 Shifting concepts of empire allowed American leaders to combine power and liberty in a way that allowed imperial expansion alongside free government. I argue that American state-building was shaped by specific political debates of the period, fought within the intellectual constraints of empire, and forced to reconcile empire with republican government. cache/th83kw55x3d.txt txt/th83kw55x3d.txt