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Whose American Revolution was it? : historians interpret the founding /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.