Bailyn has added an essay Fulfillment to the original text as a postscript. Here he discusses the debate on the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.
Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents 15001830. A cutting-edge collection of original essays on the connections and structures that made the Atlantic world a coherent regional entity. How and why the Atlantic world worked that way illuminates the emergence of global modernity.
The vast contribution of African civilization to all regions of the West, the westward migration of Europeans, pan-Atlantic commerce and its role in developing economies, racial and ethnic relations, the spread of Enlightenment ideas - all are Atlantic phenomena.