It is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. The year 1776 was also the year of the Declaration of Independence, the founding document written in Philadelphia that would become the visionary sacred text underpinning American patriotism and the country’s heady sense of itself as the supreme civic culture.But 1776 was a revolution only in the narrow sense of freeing America from British colonial rule, without any of the profound cultural transformation and disruption that the French Revolution would bring about a mere decade later.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
The real American Revolution continues after 250 years
The US’ unique and quite phenomenal economic and political success has resulted from its own adaptations of the British inheritance, taking it in new directions.
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