America's Revolution

Name: America's Revolution
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ISBN: 9780199754809

ISBN-10: 0199754802

ISBN-13: 9780199754809

Edition: 2012

Authors: Patrick Griffin

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InAmerica's Revolution, Patrick Griffin offers a new interpretation, narrative, and historical synthesis of America's most formative period. Exploring the American Revolution from global, Atlantic, and continental perspectives, Griffin focuses on how men and women in local contexts struggled to imagine new ideas of sovereignty as British authority collapsed. He examines the relationship between ideas and social tensions, the War of Independence, the roles of the founders, and the struggles and triumphs of those on the margins. Griffin illustrates how, between 1763 and 1800, Americans moved from one mythic conception of who they were to a very different one, a change that was evident in word…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Beginning: Britons



O Happy Country! Happy Kingdom!



Reduce the Savages to Reason



Such a Power Should Be Watched with a Jealous Eye



The Middle: Actors



They Will Cast Your Sovereignty in Your Face



The Devil Is in the People



Dark and Bloody Grounds



The End: Founders



In the Chair of Independency



Some Way or Other We Must Be a Great and Mighty Empire



Puzzled and Prospering Beyond Example in the History of Man


Notes


Index