Whose American Revolution Was It? : Historians Interpret the Founding / Gregory Nobles, Alfred F. Young.
2011
E209 .Y684 2011
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Title
Whose American Revolution Was It? : Historians Interpret the Founding / Gregory Nobles, Alfred F. Young.
Author
Young, Alfred F., author.
ISBN
9780814789124
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814789124.001.0001 doi
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E209 .Y684 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.3
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 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.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
American Historians Confront "Th e Transforming Hand of Revolution"
Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
Contents
Introduction
American Historians Confront "Th e Transforming Hand of Revolution"
Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors