Whose American Revolution Was It?
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-9711-2 (ISBN)
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 the Revolution for our own time.
As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period’s historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.
Alfred F. Young is Alfred Young is Emeritus Professor of History, Northern Illinois University. His numerous books include The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution and Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (NYU Press). Gregory H. Nobles is Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest, among other works.
Introduction Gregory H. Nobles and Alfred F. YoungAmerican Historians Confront "Th e Transforming Hand of Revolution" Alfred F. YoungIntroduction I. J. Franklin Jameson II. Progressives and Counter-Progressives III. New Left , New Social History IV. Synthesis Historians Extend the Reach of the American RevolutionGregory H. NoblesIntroduction I. Refocusing on the Founders II. Redefining Freedom in the Revolution III. Facing the Revolution from Indian Country IV. Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution V. Writing Women into the Revolution Afterword Gregory H. NoblesAcknowledgments Index About the Authors
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8147-9711-3 / 0814797113 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8147-9711-2 / 9780814797112 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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