The American Revolution; the search for meaning. Edited by Richard J. Hooker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Problems in American historyPublication details: New York, Wiley [1970]Description: viii, 172 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.31/08
LOC classification:
  • E210 .H7
Contents:
Introduction : The search for meaning -- But what do we mean by the American Revolution? / John Adams -- They came, with intoxicated rage, upon the house of the lieutenant-governor / Thomas Hutchinson -- It seemed as if the war was not only required, but created talents / David Ramsay -- With one heart, the continent cried : 'liberty or death' / George Bancroft -- Revolutions are the detonations of explosive materials, long accumulating and often long dormant / Charles M. Andrews -- In this way the Navigation Acts became a cause of the Revolution, but not in the sense commonly presented / Oliver M. Dickerson -- The merchants found themselves instinctively siding with the home government / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The 'Jameson thesis' is still sound, and, what is more important, still vital and suggestive / Frederick B. Tolles -- In Massachusetts we find ... a revolution to preserve a social order rather than to change it / Robert E. Brown -- The American Revolution was a democratic movement, not in origin, but in result / Merrill Jensen -- The ultimate explanation of every political controversy was the disposition of power / Bernard Bailyn -- We may be approaching a crucial juncture in our writing about the Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- The shortage of manpower soon caused a change of heart / Benjamin Quarles -- The history of the powerless, the inarticulate, the poor has not yet begun to be written / Jesse Lemisch -- The most distinctive work of the Revolution was in finding a method / R.R. Palmer -- It is as though the American Revolution was achieved in a kind of ivory tower / Hannah Arendt.
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Introduction : The search for meaning -- But what do we mean by the American Revolution? / John Adams -- They came, with intoxicated rage, upon the house of the lieutenant-governor / Thomas Hutchinson -- It seemed as if the war was not only required, but created talents / David Ramsay -- With one heart, the continent cried : 'liberty or death' / George Bancroft -- Revolutions are the detonations of explosive materials, long accumulating and often long dormant / Charles M. Andrews -- In this way the Navigation Acts became a cause of the Revolution, but not in the sense commonly presented / Oliver M. Dickerson -- The merchants found themselves instinctively siding with the home government / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The 'Jameson thesis' is still sound, and, what is more important, still vital and suggestive / Frederick B. Tolles -- In Massachusetts we find ... a revolution to preserve a social order rather than to change it / Robert E. Brown -- The American Revolution was a democratic movement, not in origin, but in result / Merrill Jensen -- The ultimate explanation of every political controversy was the disposition of power / Bernard Bailyn -- We may be approaching a crucial juncture in our writing about the Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- The shortage of manpower soon caused a change of heart / Benjamin Quarles -- The history of the powerless, the inarticulate, the poor has not yet begun to be written / Jesse Lemisch -- The most distinctive work of the Revolution was in finding a method / R.R. Palmer -- It is as though the American Revolution was achieved in a kind of ivory tower / Hannah Arendt.