Our Revolutionary Heritage

Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242068
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Will of the People written by T. H. Breen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people.” —Gordon S. Wood In this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial missing piece in the stories we tell about the American Revolution. From New Hampshire to Georgia, it was ordinary people who became the face of resistance. Without them the Revolution would have failed. They sustained the commitment to independence when victory seemed in doubt and chose law over vengeance when their communities teetered on the brink of anarchy. The Will of the People offers a vivid account of how, across the thirteen colonies, men and women negotiated the revolutionary experience, accepting huge personal sacrifice, setting up daring experiments in self-government, and going to extraordinary lengths to preserve the rule of law. After the war they avoided the violence and extremism that have compromised so many other revolutions since. A masterful storyteller, Breen recovers the forgotten history of our nation’s true founders. “The American Revolution was made not just on the battlefields or in the minds of intellectuals, Breen argues in this elegant and persuasive work. Communities of ordinary men and women—farmers, workers, and artisans who kept the revolutionary faith until victory was achieved—were essential to the effort.” —Annette Gordon-Reed “Breen traces the many ways in which exercising authority made local committees pragmatic...acting as a brake on the kind of violent excess into which revolutions so easily devolve.” —Wall Street Journal

Author : Bruce Lancaster
Publisher : New Word City, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612308317
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Heritage History of the American Revolution written by Bruce Lancaster and published by New Word City, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A magnificent book. . . . Bruce Lancaster's text is terse, rapid, lucid, and dramatic . . . filled with the color and excitement of a grim and bloody war." – The New York Times The American Heritage History of the American Revolution is the complete chronicle of the Revolutionary War told in full detail. Lancaster starts his story with an examination of colonial society and the origins of the quarrel with England. He details the ensuing battles and military campaigns from Lexington and Concord to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, as well as the tense political and social situation of the new nation. The American Heritage History of the American Revolution details the birth of America with insight and depth.

Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331955804
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Revolutionary Heritage written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Revolutionary Heritage: Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the American Revolution Washington and Franklin, Jefferson and Tom Paine, and their cc-revolutionaries believed that the American people had a Heaven-sent opportunity to triumph over the past and to mold the future. That was What Washing ton meant when he wrote that the Founda tion of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epocha when the Rights of Man kind were better understood and more clear Iy defined than at any former period. That is what Jefferson meant when he wrote of America that this whole chapter in the history of man is new. The great extent of our territory is new. The mighty wave of public opinion which has rolled over it is new. That is what the French philos 0pher-statesman Turgot meant when he wrote of the Americans that this people is the hope of the human race. Perhaps Tom Paine put it better than any one else: the American, he said, is a new Adam in a new Paradise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : George Edward Novack
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Revolutionary Heritage written by George Edward Novack and published by New York : Pathfinder Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanatory essays on Native Americans, the first American revolution, the Civil War, the rise of industrial capitalism, and the first wave of the fight for women's rights.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Great Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Revolutionary Heritage written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770678
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Revolutionary Mind written by C. Bradley Thompson and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the 1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776. The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of thought—what Thomas Jefferson called an “American mind” or what I call “America’s Revolutionary mind.” This American mind was, I argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”

Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert G. Parkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626926
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Cause written by Robert G. Parkinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.

Author : Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255438
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Our Way Home from the Revolution written by Sonya Bilocerkowycz and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, a child of the Ukrainian diaspora challenges her formative ideologies, considers innocence and complicity, and questions the roots of patriotism.