American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (121 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright information; About the Author; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter I: The Revolution and the Status of Persons; Chapter II: The Revolution and the Land; Chapter III: Industry and Commerce; Chapter IV: Thought and Feeling; Index.
Written when political and military history dominated the discipline, J. Franklin Jameson's The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was a pioneering work. Based on a series of four lectures he gave at Princeton University in 1925, the short book argued that the most salient feature of the American Revolution had not been the war for independence from Great Britain; it was, rather, the struggle between aristocratic values and those of the common people who tended toward a leveling democracy. American revolutionaries sought to change their government, not their society, but in d.