On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:26:46 -0500 "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu at mindspring.com>
writes:
>K:
>
>The American Revolution was not listed not because it was not "great".
>It was indeed a very important event in history.
>Its just that from my perspective and in the context of the theme in the
postings, the American "Revolution" was really a cessationist movement
>for local independence rather than a struggle for fundamental social
>change, as evidenced by the postponement of the slavery issue for a
>century after independence.
The fact that those involved in the American Revolution were basically rejecting monarchy doesn't make it a struggle for fundamental social change? How about the fact that the French Revolutionaries were inspired by their American counterparts?
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