John M. Murrin

Rethinking America (eBook, PDF)

From Empire to Republic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the decision to declare independence in 1776, and the impact the American Revolution had on the nation it produced. By digging deeply into questions that have shaped the field for several generations, Rethinking America argues that high politics and the study of constitutional and ideological questions--broadly the history of elites--must be considered in close conjunction with issues of economic inequality, class conflict, and racial division. Bringing together different schools of history and a variety of perspectives on both Britain and the North American colonies, it explains why what began as a constitutional argument, that virtually all expected would remain contained within the British Empire, exploded into a truly subversive and radical revolution that destroyed monarchy and aristocracy and replaced them with a rapidly transforming and chaotic republic. This volume examines the period of the early American Republic and discusses why the Founders' assumptions about what their Revolution would produce were profoundly different than the society that emerged from the American Revolution. In many ways, Rethinking America suggests that the outcome of the American Revolution put the new United States on a path to a violent and bloody civil war. With an introduction by Andrew Shankman, this long-awaited work by one of the most important scholars of the Revolutionary era offers a coherent interpretation of the complex period that saw the breakdown of colonial British North America and the founding of the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190870539
• Artikelnr.: 54563724

Autorenporträt

John M. Murrin is one of the foremost scholars of early America. He was professor of history at Princeton University for thirty years and is the author of over fifty essays and the co-author of the textbook Liberty, Equality, Power. Andrew Shankman is associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding (OUP, 2017), among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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