Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War

ISBN 10: 1625340338 / ISBN 13: 9781625340337

Editore: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013

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Riassunto:

In today's United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted, divisive, and destructive war has calcified into a glorified founding moment of the American nation. Disparate events with equally diverse participants have been reduced to a few key scenes and characters, presided over by well-meaning and wise old men.

Recollections of the Revolution did not always take today's form. In this lively collection of essays, historians and literary scholars consider how the first three generations of American citizens interpreted their nation's origins. The volume introduces readers to a host of individuals and groups both well known and obscure, from Molly Pitcher and "forgotten father" John Dickinson to African American Baptists in Georgia and antebellum pacifists. They show how the memory of the Revolution became politicized early in the nation's history, as different interests sought to harness its meaning for their own ends. No single faction succeeded, and at the outbreak of the Civil War the American people remained divided over how to remember the Revolution.

Informazioni sugli autori: Michael A. McDonnell is associate professor of history at the University of Sydney.

Clare Corbould is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne.

Frances M. Clarke is senior lecturer at the University of Sydney.

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Contributors include Peter Bastian, Keith Beutler, Daryl Black, Emily Lewis Butterfield, Seth C. Bruggeman, Eileen Ka-May Cheng, Frances M. Clarke, Clare Corbould, Caroline Cox, Tara Deshpande, Carolyn Eastman, William Hunting Howell, Daniel Mandell, Matthew Mason, Michael A. McDonnell, James Paxton, Sarah J. Purcell, and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.

Michael A. McDonnell is associate professor of history at the University of Sydney. Clare Corbould is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. Frances M. Clarke is senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. W. Fitzhugh Brundage is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Contributors include Peter Bastian, Keith Beutler, Daryl Black, Emily Lewis Butterfield, Seth C. Bruggeman, Eileen Ka-May Cheng, Frances M. Clarke, Clare Corbould, Caroline Cox, Tara Deshpande, Carolyn Eastman, William Hunting Howell, Daniel Mandell, Matthew Mason, Michael A. McDonnell, James Paxton, Sarah J. Purcell, and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.

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Titolo: Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History,...
Casa editrice: University of Massachusetts Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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