This volume brings together the seminal essays of John M. Murrin on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Rethinking America explains why a constitutional argument within the British Empire escalated to produce a revolutionary republic.
This volume brings together the seminal essays of John M. Murrin on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Rethinking America explains why a constitutional argument within the British Empire escalated to produce a revolutionary republic.
John Murrin is one of the foremost scholars of early America and is the author of over 50 essays and the textbook Liberty, Equality, Power. He is a former President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and was for over 30 years a professor of history at Princeton University. Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Camden, is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding and Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, and the editor of The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent and Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic.
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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
* 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
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