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Author : Jackson Turner Main
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072576205
Author : Jackson Turner Main
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005170538
Author : Gordon S. Wood,Louise G. Wood
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : United States
ISBN : 0826210201
Nine prominent modern Russian historians present essays on the American Revolution; US historians comment on the essays; and the Russians respond to the critiques, sometimes quite strongly. The Russians discuss topics similar to those considered by Americans, such as the politics of the Continental Congress, the Articles of Confederation, Shay's rebellion, and the ideas and actions of the Founding Fathers; but often apply Marxist principles that smell bad to the Americans. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393347494
"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty—the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"—has worked in our history and remains a political force today.
Author : Jackson Turner Main
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Legislative bodies
ISBN : LCCN:lc67020753
Author : Thomas N. Ingersoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107128613
A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.
Author : Andrew K. Frank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097081
Moving beyond traditional texts, this revealing volume explores the world of the average citizens who played an integral part in the Revolutionary era of American history. American Revolution looks at one of the most significant eras in American history through the eyes of its least famous, least studied citizens. It is an eye-opening collection of essays demonstrating how the wrenching transformation from English colonies to an emerging nation affected Americans from all walks of life. American Revolution features the work of 14 accomplished social historians, whose findings are adding new dimensions to our understanding of the Revolutionary era. But some of the most fascinating contributions to this volume come from the people themselves—the anecdotes, letters, diaries, journalism, and other documents that convey the experiences of the full spectrum of American society in the mid- to late-18th century (including women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, soldiers, children, laborers, Quakers, sailors, and farmers).
Author : Colin Bonwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137052506
Colin Bonwick expands and updates the well-received first edition, and incorporates fresh material drawn from recent scholarship. The structure and argument of the book remain as before, but in particular Bonwick pays greater attention to Native Americans, African Americans, and white women. Though the book traces the attainment of independence, it focuses especially on the internal revolution that created republican governments, and considers the extent of social change. It concludes by examining the development of the American union.
Author : Thomas L. Purvis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438107998
Chronicles life in the United States during the Colonial period, including information on weather, economy, population, religion, education, arts and letters, and popular culture.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899816
One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book Review "During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.--William and Mary Quarterly "[A] brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture in the Revolutionary generation.--New England Quarterly "This is an admirable, thoughtful, and penetrating study of one of the most important chapters in American history.--Wesley Frank Craven
Author : John M. Murrin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195038712
This volume brings together the seminal essays of John M. Murrin on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. 'Rethinking America' explains why a constitutional argument within the British Empire escalated to produce a revolutionary republic.
Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374712075
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence "What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it." As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark book, the long process of revolution reached back more than a century before 1776, and it touched on virtually every aspect of the colonies' laws, commerce, social structures, religious sentiments, family ties, and political interests. And Slaughter's comprehensive work makes clear that the British who chose to go to North America chafed under imperial rule from the start, vigorously disputing many of the colonies' founding charters. When the British said the Americans were typically "independent," they meant to disparage them as lawless and disloyal. But the Americans insisted on their moral courage and political principles, and regarded their independence as a great virtue, as they regarded their love of freedom and their loyalty to local institutions. Over the years, their struggles to define this independence took many forms, and Slaughter's compelling narrative takes us from New England and Nova Scotia to New York and Pennsylvania, and south to the Carolinas, as colonists resisted unsympathetic royal governors, smuggled to evade British duties on imported goods (tea was only one of many), and, eventually, began to organize for armed uprisings. Britain, especially after its victories over France in the 1750s, was eager to crush these rebellions, but the Americans' opposition only intensified, as did dark conspiracy theories about their enemies—whether British, Native American, or French.In Independence, Slaughter resets and clarifies the terms in which we may understand this remarkable evolution, showing how and why a critical mass of colonists determined that they could not be both independent and subject to the British Crown. By 1775–76, they had become revolutionaries—going to war only reluctantly, as a last-ditch means to preserve the independence that they cherished as a birthright.
Author : G. Alan Tarr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691188553
For many Americans, the word "constitution" means just one thing: the national Constitution. According to a recent survey, almost half do not know that individual states also have constitutions. Scholars have also paid little attention to state constitutions, favoring the apparently more dynamic and significant federal scene. G. Alan Tarr seeks to change that in this landmark book. A leading authority on state legal issues, he combines history, law, and political science to present a thorough and long-needed account of the distinct and important role of state constitutions in American life. Tarr shows that state constitutional politics are dominated by three crucial issues with little salience at the national level: the distribution of power among groups and regions within states, the scope of state and local governmental authority, and the relation of the state to economic activity. He explains how state constitutions differ from the national Constitution in treating not only matters of high principle but also such mundane subjects as ski trails and motor vehicle revenues. He also explores why state constitutions, unlike their federal counterpart, have been so frequently amended and replaced. Tarr concludes that the United States not only has a system of dual constitutionalism but also has dual constitutional cultures. Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, the book fills an important gap in political and legal studies and finally gives state constitutions the scholarly attention they richly deserve.
Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440627057
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
Author : David B. Mattern
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643364322
The first modern biography of an American Revolutionary War hero In this definitive biography of one of America's most important but least known Revolutionary War generals, David B. Mattern tells the life story of Benjamin Lincoln, a prosperous farmer who left the comfort of his Massachusetts home to become a national hero in America's struggle for independence. Mattern's account of the citizen-soldier who served as George Washington's second-in-command at Yorktown and as secretary at war from 1781 to 1783 revisits the challenges, sacrifices, triumphs, and defeats that shaped Lincoln's evolution from affluent middle-aged family man to pillar of a dynamic republic. In addition to offering new insights into leadership during the Revolutionary period, Lincoln's life so mirrored his times that it provides an opportunity to tell the tale of the American Revolution in a fresh, compelling way.
