American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement - Paperback

ISBN: 9780691005508

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 serie… More...

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 destroying monarchy and establishing republics, they in fact changed their society profoundly. Jameson wrote, 'The stream of revolution, once started, could not be con.ned within narrow banks, but spread abroad upon the land.? Jameson's book was among the first to bring social analysis to the fore of American history. Examining the effects the American Revolution had on business, intellectual and religious life, slavery, land ownership, and interactions between members of different social classes, Jameson showed the extent of the social reforms won at home during the war. By looking beyond the political and probing the social aspects of this seminal event, Jameson forced a reexamination of revolution as a social phenomenon and, as one reviewer put it, injected a 'liberal spirit' into the study of American history. Still in print after nearly eighty years, the book is a classic of American historiography. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher 203 x 127 x 7 mm , University Presses, Taschenbuch, University Presses<

ISBN: 9780691005508

Argues 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 thos… More...

Argues 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.; Social Sciences, Princeton University Press<

1968, ISBN: 0691005508

Kartoniert / Broschiert Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, um 1765 bis 1783 (amerikanische Revolutionsperiode), um 1783 bis 1800 (Ära des amerikanischen Föderalismus), mit Schutzumschl… More...

Kartoniert / Broschiert Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, um 1765 bis 1783 (amerikanische Revolutionsperiode), um 1783 bis 1800 (Ära des amerikanischen Föderalismus), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Princeton University Press]<