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Karen Orren. Belated Feudalism. Labor, the Law and Liberal Development in the United States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ‘etc.’ 1991. x, 238 pp. £12.95; $15.95.

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3 See for example two recent attempts at a revision of “republican revisionism”: Kramnick, Isaac, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism. Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America (Cornell Univ. Press, 1990)Google Scholar; Appleby, Joyce, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (Harvard Univ. Press, 1992)Google Scholar.

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6 This is an area that is almost entirely neglected in Charles Tilly's recent brilliant synthesis on European state-formation, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990 (Oxford & Cambridge, Mass., 1990).