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The debate on the American Revolution

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847791511
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E209 .D433 2007
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Contents:
Subject: This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events and their causes and, more contentiously, their meaning. Making accessible to modern readers the work of often-neglected early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and competing versions of the history of the Revolution. It spans the entire period from the first generation o.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719052415; 9780719052415; Copyright; CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 The pioneers; 2 'Noble ideals and ignoble interests'; 3 Present at the creation: the making ofthe Federal Constitution; 4 Ideology, slavery and original intent; 5 African Americans: resistance andrevolution; 6' A new era in female history'; 7 The Indians, the west and the Revolution; CONCLUSION; FURTHER READING; INDEX.

This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events and their causes and, more contentiously, their meaning. Making accessible to modern readers the work of often-neglected early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and competing versions of the history of the Revolution. It spans the entire period from the first generation o.

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