The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create AmericaIn 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 and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | xiii |
ROOTS OF RADICALISM | 1 |
YEARS OF INSURGENCE 17611766 | 44 |
BUILDING MOMENTUM 17661774 | 88 |
REACHING THE CLIMAX 17741776 | 150 |
THE DUAL REVOLUTION 17761778 | 207 |
WRITING ON THE CLEAN SLATE 17761780 | 264 |
RADICALISM AT FLOODTIDE 17781781 | 306 |
TAMING THE REVOLUTION 17801785 | 366 |
SPARKS FROM THE ALTAR OF 76 | 423 |
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