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3) The unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating...
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. “Race and Revolution” is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788.
Reversing the conventional...
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