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1 online resource (vi, 287 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; American Historians Confront "The Transforming Hand of Revolution"; Introduction; I.J. Franklin Jameson; 1. The Jameson Thesis: The Text; 2. The Jameson Thesis: The Context; 3. Jameson's Achievement; II. Progressives and Counter-Progressives; 4. The Progressive Historians; 5. The Counter-Progressives: Part 1; 6. Against the Grain; 7. The Counter-Progressives: Part 2; III. New Left, New Social History; 8. The New Left; 9. The New Social History; 10. Explorations: New Left, New Social, New Progressive; IV. Synthesis |
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11. The Transformation of Early American History12. Toward a New Synthesis?; Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution; Introduction; I. Refocusing on the Founders; 1. Twenty-first-Century "Founders Chic"; 2. The Elite Critique of Social History; II. Redefining Freedom in the Revolution; 3. The Contradiction of Slavery; 4. The Revolution of the Enslaved; 5. Emancipation's Fate in the Revolutionary Era; 6. The Founders' Failures on Slavery; III. Facing the Revolution from Indian Country; 7. Native American Perspectives on Euro-American Struggles |
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8. Eighteenth-Century American EmpiresIV. Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution; 9. The Roots and Resurgence of Class Analysis; 10. The Urban Context of Class; 11. Class in the Countryside; V. Writing Women into the Revolution; 12. Energy and Innovation since 1980; 13. New Approaches to Elite Women's Lives; 14. The Historical Recovery of Ordinary Women's Lives; 15. Women in the Post-Revolutionary Public Sphere; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Authors |
| Summary |
The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted th |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social aspects
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Amerikanische Revolution
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Geschichtsschreibung.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140161
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140162
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nobles, Gregory H., author.
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| ISBN |
9780814797433 |
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0814797431 |
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9780814789124 |
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0814789129 |
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