Minutemen and Their World

Name: Minutemen and Their World
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ISBN: 9780809001200

ISBN-10: 0809001209

ISBN-13: 9780809001200

Edition: 2001 (Anniversary)

Authors: Robert A. Gross, Alan Taylor, Alan M. Taylor

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.27" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Robert A. Gross is Forrest Murden, Jr., Professor of History & American Studies at the College of William & Mary. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Foreword
Preface
Prologue: Winter Soldiers and Springtime Farmers	p. 3
"Do Not Be Divided for So Small Matters"	p. 10
The Reluctant Revolutionaries	p. 30
A Well-ordered Revolution	p. 42
A World of Scarcity	p. 68
"The Regulars Are Coming Out!"	p. 109
"This Bleeding Land"	p. 133
A Bridge to the Future	p. 171
Afterword	p. 193
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 253
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