Challenge of the American Revolution
The Revolution is fertile ground for the historian's craft, as these essays attest. Edmund S. Morgan discovers in American protests against British taxation an affirmation of rights that the colonists adhered to with surprising consistency, and that guided them ultimately to independence. Then, after a general reassessment of the importance of the Revolution, he moves to a study of it as an intellectual movement, which challenged the best minds of the period to transform their political world. Next, in studying the ethical basis of the Revolution, Morgan traces the shaping of national consciousness by puritanical attitudes toward work and lei…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-00876-0
- EAN: 9780393008760
- Produktnummer: 2526873
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.5 cm 272 g
- Gewicht: 272
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Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy's Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others.
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