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Whose American Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret the Founding

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ISBN-10: 0814797113

ISBN-13: 9780814797112

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alfred F. Young, Gregory Nobles

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Alfred F. Young is Alfred Young is Emeritus Professor of History, Northern Illinois University. His numerous books include The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution and Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (NYU Press).

Introduction
American Historians Confront "The Transforming Hand of Revolution"
Introduction
J. Franklin Jameson
The Jameson Thesis: The Text
The Jameson Thesis: The Context
Jameson's Achievement
Progressives and Counter-Progressives
The Progressive Historians
The Counter-Progressives: Part 1
Against the Grain
The Counter-Progressives: Part 2
New Left, New Social History
The New Left
The New Social History
Explorations: New Left, New Social, New Progressive
Synthesis
The Transformation of Early American History
Toward a New Synthesis?
Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution
Introduction
Refocusing on the Founders
Twenty-first-Century "Founders Chic"
The Elite Critique of Social History
Redefining Freedom in the Revolution
The Contradiction of Slavery
The Revolution of the Enslaved
Emancipation's Fate in the Revolutionary Era
The Founders' Failures on Slavery
Facing the Revolution from Indian Country
Native American Perspectives on Euro-American Struggles
Eighteenth-Century American Empires
Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution
The Roots and Resurgence of Class Analysis
The Urban Context of Class
Class in the Countryside
Writing Women into the Revolution
Energy and Innovation since 1980
New Approaches to Elite Women's Lives
The Historical Recovery of Ordinary Women's Lives
Women in the Post-Revolutionary Public Sphere
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors