American Insurgents, American Patriots The Revolution of the People

Name: American Insurgents, American Patriots The Revolution of the People
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ISBN: 9780809024797

ISBN-10: 0809024799

ISBN-13: 9780809024797

Edition: 2011

Authors: T. H. Breen, T. H. Breen

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Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americansmost of them members of farm families living in small communitieswere drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to American…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.76" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction: The Revolutionary World of Matthew Patten



The Face of Colonial Society



Ghost Stories in a Time of Political Crisis



Revenge of the Countryside



Reaching Out to Others



The Power of Rumor: The Day the British Destroyed Boston



The Association: The Second Stage of Insurgency



Schools of Revolution



Insurgents in Power



An Appeal to Heaven: Religion and Rights



Endgames of Empire


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index