| Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors Contributor(s): Greene, Jack P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813916089 ISBN-13: 9780813916088 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 973.3 |
| LCCN: 95008292 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.71 lbs) 401 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume brings together sixteen essays on the American Revolution by leading historian Jack Greene. Originally published between 1972 and the early nineties, these essays approach the Revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. In Understanding the American Revolution, Greene explores such problems as Virginia's political behavior during the Revolutionary era; the roles of three cultural brokers, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Philip Mazzei; and why the Revolution had such a short half-life as a model for large-scale revolutions. He explores the colonial roots of the political structures that Revolutionary leaders created, and he asks why the American Revolution was not more radical. |