Challenge of the American Revolution

Name: Challenge of the American Revolution
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ISBN: 9780393008760

ISBN-10: 0393008762

ISBN-13: 9780393008760

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edmund S. Morgan

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The Revolution is fertile ground for the historian's craft, as these essays attest. Edmund S. Morgan discovers in American protests against British taxation an affirmation of rights that the colonists adhered to with surprising consistency, and that guided them ultimately to independence. Then, after a general reassessment of the importance of the Revolution, he moves to a study of it as an intellectual movement, which challenged the best minds of the period to transform their political world. Next, in studying the ethical basis of the Revolution, Morgan traces the shaping of national consciousness by puritanical attitudes toward work and leisure. This leads him to an exploration of the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 4.80" wide x 7.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America.