Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding

Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding - Paperback

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Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding - Paperback

Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding - Paperback

by Alfred F. Young , Gregory Nobles
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by Alfred F. Young (Author), Gregory Nobles (Author)

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.
Number of Pages: 293
Dimensions: 0.72 x 9.02 x 5.94 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2011
ISBN9780814797112
Author Alfred F. Young , Gregory Nobles
PublisherNew York University Press
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages293
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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