Whose American Revolution Was It? ：Historians Interpret the Founding

Publication subTitle ：Historians Interpret the Founding

Author： Young Alfred F.  

Publisher： NYU Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9780814789124

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814797112

Subject： K712.41 独立战争（1775~1783年）

Keyword： 史学理论,美洲史,现代史（1917年~）,近代史（1640~1917年）

Language： ENG

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The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time.  As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period's historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.

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Cover

Contents

Introduction

American Historians Confront “The Transforming Hand of Revolution”

Introduction

I. J. Franklin Jameson

1. The Jameson Thesis: The Text

2. The Jameson Thesis: The Context

3. Jameson’s Achievement

II. Progressives and Counter-Progressives

4. The Progressive Historians

5. The Counter-Progressives: Part 1

6. Against the Grain

7. The Counter-Progressives: Part 2

III. New Left , New Social History

8. The New Left

9. The New Social History

10. Explorations: New Left , New Social, New Progressive

IV. Synthesis

11. The Transformation of Early American History

12. Toward a New Synthesis?

Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution

Introduction

I. Refocusing on the Founders

1. Twenty-first-Century “Founders Chic”

2. The Elite Critique of Social History

II. Redefining Freedom in the Revolution

3. The Contradiction of Slavery

4. The Revolution of the Enslaved

5. Emancipation’s Fate in the Revolutionary Era

6. The Founders’ Failures on Slavery

III. Facing the Revolution from Indian Country

7. Native American Perspectives on Euro-American Struggles

8. Eighteenth-Century American Empires

IV. Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution

9. The Roots and Resurgence of Class Analysis

10. The Urban Context of Class

11. Class in the Countryside

V. Writing Women into the Revolution

12. Energy and Innovation since 1980

13. New Approaches to Elite Women’s Lives

14. The Historical Recovery of Ordinary Women’s Lives

15. Women in the Post-Revolutionary Public Sphere

Afterword

Acknowledgments

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