The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gray, Edward G.; Kamensky, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of colonial North America and their extraordinary struggles before, during, and after the eight-year-long civil war that secured the independence of thirteen rebel colonies from their erstwhile colonial parent. The chapters explore battles and diplomacy, economics and finance, law and culture, politics and society, gender, race, and religion. Its diverse cast of characters includes ordinary farmers and artisans, free and enslaved African Americans, Indians, and British and American statesmen and military leaders. In addition to expanding the Revolution's who, the Handbook broadens its where, portraying an event that far transcended the boundaries of what was to become the United States. It offers readers an American Revolution whose impact ranged far beyond the thirteen colonies. The Handbook's range of interpretive and methodological approaches captures the full scope of current revolutionary-era scholarship. Its authors, British and American scholars spanning several generations, include social, cultural, military, and imperial historians, as well as those who study politics, diplomacy, literature, gender, and sexuality. Together and separately, these essays demonstrate that the American Revolution remains a vibrant and inviting a subject of inquiry. Nothing comparable has been published in decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199324033
• Artikelnr.: 38144855

Autorenporträt

Edward G. Gray is professor of early American history at Florida State University. Jane Kamensky is professor of American history at Brandeis University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Maps
* Contributors
* Introduction: American Revolutions
* Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky
* Part I. Cultures and Crises
* Chapter 1. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective
* P. J. Marshall
* Chapter 2. The Unsettled Periphery: The Backcountry on the Eve of the
American Revolution
* William B. Hart
* Chapter 3. The Polite and the Plebian
* Michael Zuckerman
* Chapter 4. Political Protest and the World of Goods
* Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
* Chapter 5. The Imperial Crisis
* Craig B. Yirush
* Chapter 6. The Struggle Within: Colonial Politics on the Eve of
Independence
* Michael A. McDonnell
* Chapter 7. The Democratic Moment: The Revolution and Popular Politics
* Ray Raphael
* Chapter 8. Independence before and during the Revolution
* Benjamin H. Irvin
* Part II. War
* Chapter 9. The Continental Army
* Caroline Cox
* Chapter 10. The British Army and the War of Independence
* Stephen Conway
* Chapter 11. The War in the Cities
* Mark A. Peterson
* Chapter 12. The War in the Countryside
* Allan Kulikoff
* Chapter 13. Native Peoples in the Revolutionary War
* Jane T. Merritt
* Chapter 14. The African Americans' Revolution
* Gary B. Nash
* Chapter 15. Women in the American Revolutionary War
* Sarah M. S. Pearsall
* Chapter 16. Loyalism
* Edward Larkin
* Chapter 17. The Revolutionary War and Europe's Great Powers
* Paul W. Mapp
* Chapter 18. Funding the Revolution: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in
Eighteenth-Century America
* Stephen Mihm
* Part III. A Revolutionary Settlement
* Chapter 19. The Impact of the War on British Politics
* Harry T. Dickinson
* Chapter 20. The Trials of the Confederation
* Terry Bouton
* Chapter 21. A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the
Constitution
* Max M. Edling
* Chapter 22. The Evangelical Ascendancy in Revolutionary America
* Susan Juster
* Chapter 23. The Problems of Slavery
* Christopher Leslie Brown
* Chapter 24. Rights
* Eric Slauter
* Chapter 25. The Empire That Britain Kept
* Eliga H. Gould
* Part IV. New Orders
* Chapter 26. The American Revolution and a New National Politics
* Rosemarie Zagarri
* Chapter 27. Republican Art and Architecture
* Martha J. McNamara
* Chapter 28. Print Culture after the Revolution
* Catherine O'Donnell
* Chapter 29. Republican Law
* Christopher L. Tomlins
* Chapter 30. Discipline, Sex, and the Republican Self
* Clare A. Lyons
* Chapter 31. The Laboring Republic
* Graham Russell Gao Hodges
* Chapter 32. The Republic in the World, 1783-1803
* J. M. Opal
* Chapter 33. America's Cultural Revolution in Transnational
Perspective
* Leora Auslander
* Index