America's Revolution - Couverture souple

Griffin, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199754802 ISBN 13 : 9780199754809

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In America's Revolution, Patrick Griffin offers a new interpretation, narrative, and historical synthesis of America's most formative period. Exploring the American Revolution from global, Atlantic, and continental perspectives, Griffin focuses on how men and women in local contexts struggled to imagine new ideas of sovereignty as British authority collapsed. He examines the relationship between ideas and social tensions, the War of Independence, the roles of the founders, and the struggles and triumphs of those on the margins. Griffin illustrates how, between 1763 and 1800, Americans moved from one mythic conception of who they were to a very different one, a change that was evident in word and in image. America's Revolution captures these dynamics by exploring origins and outcomes--as well as the violent, uncertain, and liberating process of revolution--that bridged the two.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Griffin is Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (2008) and The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World (2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199754802
• ISBN 13: 9780199754809
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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