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The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America: The Unknown American Revolution
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In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country’s birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
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| Weight | 0.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.1 × 13.97 × 21.21 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 544 |
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| Year Published | 2006-5-30 |
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| ISBN 10 | 014303720X |
| About The Author | Gary B. Nash is professor of history at UCLA and director of the National Center for History in the Schools. He is the former president of the Organization of American Historians, co-chair of the National History Standards Project, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
"Tightly though densely written, this expertly researched tome shakes the "stainless steel" history of the American Revolution to its core." —Publishers Weekly "You will never think about the Revolution in the same way." —Alfred F. Young, author of Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier"What Nash does in The Unknown American Revolution is dislodge the founding fathers to give the dynamism of urban craftsmen, slaves, ‘dockside tars,' and ‘club-wielding farmers' a more prominent place in the history of the movement." —The Boston Globe |
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| Table Of Content | List of Illustrations XIIIIntroduction XV1. Roots of RadicalismJailbreaks at Newark 2Christ's Poor 8Little Carpenter's Dilemma 12"The Mobbish Turn" in Boston 18"Cum Multis Aegis" in Philadelphia 25"Fondness for Freedom" 32Heralds of Abolition 392. Years of Insurgence, 1761-1766The Crowd Finds Its Own Mind 45Restive Slaves 59Stricken Conscience 62The Great Indian Awakening 66Insurgent Farmers 723. Building Momentum, 1766-1774"The Rising Spirit of the People" 91Backcountry Crises 103"The Natural Rights of Africans" 114Indian Hating on the Middle Ground 128Out of the Shadows 133Radical Religion 1464. Reaching the Climax, 1776-1778Abolitionism Under War Clouds 151"Liberty to Slaves" 157Logan's Lament 166Plowmen and Leather Aprons 178Breaking the Logjam 189The Genie Unbottled 1995. The Dual Revolution, 1776-1780Unalienable Rights for Whom? 210The Myth of the Minuteman 216Fighting to Be Free 223Rioting to Eat 232Radical Loyalism 238Choosing Sides 2476. Writing on the Clean Slate, 1776-1780First Attempts 266A Militiaman's Constitution 268The Frightened Response 277Vermont and Maryland 280E Pluribus Unum? 288Betrayal in Massachussetts 2907. Radicalism at Floodtide, 1778-1781Blood in the Streets 307New Choices for African Americans 320Defending Virginia 339Native American Agonies 345Radical Mutineers 3578. Taming the Revolution, 1780-1785"Band of Brotherhood" 369Peace Without Peace 376Southern Fissures 387Northern Struggles for Equity 395Leaving America 402Finding Freedom 407Women of the Republic 417Epilogue: Sparks from the Altar of '76The Dream Deferred 426The Last Best Chance 429The Indispensible Enemy 435The Veterans' Cheat 441Small-Producer Persistence 443Passing the Torch 450Acknowledgements 457Notes 459Index 495 |
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