Inheriting the Revolution The First Generation of Americans

Name: Inheriting the Revolution The First Generation of Americans
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ISBN: 9780674006638

ISBN-10: 0674006631

ISBN-13: 9780674006638

Edition: 2000

Authors: Joyce Appleby

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Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction



Responding to a Revolutionary Tradition



Enterprise



Careers



Distinctions



Intimate Relations



Reform



A New National Identity


Notes


Index