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Historians on Hamilton : how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past / edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813590318
  • 9780813590332
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML410 .H578 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Introduction: History Is Happening in Manhattan / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter -- From Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton: An American Musical / William Hogeland -- "Can We Get Back to Politics? Please": Hamilton's Missing Politics in Hamilton / Joanne B. Freeman -- Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Hamilton / Lyra D. Monteiro -- The Greatest City in the World?: Slavery in New York in the Age of Hamilton / Leslie M. Harris -- "Remember... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton / Catherine Allgor -- "The Ten-Dollar Founding Father": Hamilton, Money, and Federal Power / Michael O'Malley -- Hamilton as Founders Chic: A Neo-Federalist, Antislavery Usable Past? / David Waldstreicher and Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Hamilton and the American Revolution on Stage and Screen / Andrew M. Shockett -- From The Black Crook to Hamilton: A Brief History of Hot Tickets on Broadway / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Looking at Hamilton from Inside the Broadway Bubble / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Mind the Gap: Teaching Hamilton / Jim Cullen -- Reckoning with America's Racial Past, Present, and Future in Hamilton / Patricia Herrera -- Who Tells Your Story?: Hamilton as a People's History / Joseph M. Adelman -- Hamilton: A New American Civic Myth / Renee C. Romano -- "Safe in the Nation We've Made?": Staging Hamilton on Social Media / Claire Bond Potter.
Subject: Historians on ""Hamilton"" brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America's history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: History Is Happening in Manhattan / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter -- From Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton: An American Musical / William Hogeland -- "Can We Get Back to Politics? Please": Hamilton's Missing Politics in Hamilton / Joanne B. Freeman -- Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Hamilton / Lyra D. Monteiro -- The Greatest City in the World?: Slavery in New York in the Age of Hamilton / Leslie M. Harris -- "Remember... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton / Catherine Allgor -- "The Ten-Dollar Founding Father": Hamilton, Money, and Federal Power / Michael O'Malley -- Hamilton as Founders Chic: A Neo-Federalist, Antislavery Usable Past? / David Waldstreicher and Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Hamilton and the American Revolution on Stage and Screen / Andrew M. Shockett -- From The Black Crook to Hamilton: A Brief History of Hot Tickets on Broadway / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Looking at Hamilton from Inside the Broadway Bubble / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Mind the Gap: Teaching Hamilton / Jim Cullen -- Reckoning with America's Racial Past, Present, and Future in Hamilton / Patricia Herrera -- Who Tells Your Story?: Hamilton as a People's History / Joseph M. Adelman -- Hamilton: A New American Civic Myth / Renee C. Romano -- "Safe in the Nation We've Made?": Staging Hamilton on Social Media / Claire Bond Potter.

Historians on ""Hamilton"" brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America's history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.

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