Rethinking America

Rethinking America

From Empire to Republic

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Oxford University Press Inc

06/2018

424

Dura

Inglês

9780195038712

15 a 20 dias

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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Revolutionary Republic of a Radical, Imperial, Whig: The Historical and Historiographical Imagination of John M. Murrin- Andrew Shankman Part I: An Overview Chapter 1: The Great Inversion, or, Court versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816) Part II: Toward Revolution Chapter 2: No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations Chapter 3: The French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Counterfactual Hypothesis: Reflections on Lawrence Henry Gipson and John Shy Chapter 4: Feudalism, Communalism, and the Yeoman Freeholder: The American Revolution Considered as a Social Accident (with Rowland Berthoff) Chapter 5: 1776: The Countercyclical Revolution Part III: Defining the Republic Chapter 6: A Roof Without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity Chapter 7: Fundamental Values, the Founding Fathers, and the Constitution Chapter 8: The Making and Unmaking of an American Ruling Class (with Gary J. Kornblith) Chapter 9: Escaping Perfidious Albion: Federalism, Fear of Aristocracy, and the Democratization of Corruption in Postrevolutionary America Chapter 10: War, Revolution, and Nation-Making: The American Revolution versus the Civil War Conclusion: Self-Immolation: Schools of Historiography and the Coming of the American Revolution