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Understanding the American Revolution: issues and actors

By Jack P. Greene

Book information

Publisher
The University of Virginia Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780813916095, 9780813916088
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
86 MB (90148804 bytes)
Pages
401\416
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 11:07:22

Description

This volume brings together sixteen essays on the American Revolution by leading historian Jack Greene. Originally published between 1972 and the early nineties, these essays approach the Revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. In Understanding the American Revolution, Greene explores such problems as Virginia's political behavior during the Revolutionary era; the roles of three cultural brokers, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Philip Mazzei; and why the Revolution had such a short half-life as a model for large-scale revolutions. He explores the colonial roots of the political structures that Revolutionary leaders created, and he asks why the American Revolution was not more radical.

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