{"product_id":"the-american-revolution-reborn-hardback-9780812248463","title":"The American Revolution Reborn (Hardback) 9780812248463","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe American Revolution Reborn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Spero (Edited by), Michael Zuckerman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812248463\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 5 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e is a mess. This is no criticism! In fact, by the lights of co-editor Patrick Spero, this is actually the volume's central aim. Rather than attempting to conjure up a fresh, grand narrative of revolutionary America, this group of fifteen contributors provides what Spero calls a 'messy' view of the revolution that deconstructs longstanding historiographical pieties. In doing so, the collection brings the lived experiences of individuals to the fore. Readers will discover an eclectic cast of characters who ordinarily exist on the periphery of revolutionary narratives.\" (\u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This is the most ambitious state-of-the-field collection published since the American Revolution's bicentennial. Let's hope it is successful in charting new directions and arousing fruitful debates.\" (Thomas P. Slaughter, author of \u003ci\u003eIndependence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e) \"The American Revolution appears in a fresh new light in this lively and wide-ranging collection of essays. The authors deftly explore a diverse and contested revolution rich in ironies and importance.\" (Alan Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e is a state-of-the-field collection. Its essays rank among the best Revolutionary scholarship to emerge since the collapse of the republican synthesis. The authors reject heroic narratives, repudiate nationalist analyses, and blur the edges of allegiance, identity, and indifference.\" (Benjamin H. Irvin, University of Arizona) \"The essays in this volume are careful, thought-provoking, and highly effective, and the conclusion issues a challenging and pungent demand that we abandon our comfortable assumptions.\" (Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University-Camden)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more complex matter, filled with uncertainty, fear, and discord. In \u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman compile essays from a new generation of multidisciplinary scholars that render the American Revolution as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e parts company with the Revolution of our popular imagination and diverges from the work done by historians of the era from the past half-century. In the first section, \"Civil Wars,\" contributors rethink the heroic terms of Revolutionary-era allegiance and refute the idea of patriotic consensus. In the following section, \"Wider Horizons,\" essayists destabilize the historiographical inevitability of America as a nation. The studies gathered in the third section, \"New Directions,\" present new possibilities for scholarship on the American Revolution. And the last section, titled \"Legacies,\" collects essays that deal with the long afterlife of the Revolution and its effects on immigration, geography, and international politics. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Zara Anishanslin, Mark Boonshoft, Denver Brunsman, Katherine CartÉ Engel, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Travis Glasson, Edward G. Gray, David C. Hsiung, Ned C. Landsman, Michael A. McDonnell, Kimberly Nath, Bryan Rosenblithe, David S. Shields, Patrick Spero, Matthew Spooner, Aaron Sullivan, Michael Zuckerman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Origins\u003cbr\u003e -Patrick Spero\u003cbr\u003e PART I. CIVIL WARS: CHALLENGING THE PATRIOTIC NARRATIVE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. War Stories: Remembering and Forgetting the American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e -Michael A. McDonnell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Intimacies of Occupation: Loyalties, Compromise, and Betrayal in Revolutionary-Era Newport\u003cbr\u003e -Travis Glasson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Uncommon Cause: The Challenges of Disaffection in Revolutionary Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e -Aaron Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Loyalism, Citizenship, American Identity: The Shoemaker Family\u003cbr\u003e -Kimberly Nath\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren\": Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War\u003cbr\u003e -Denver Brunsman\u003cbr\u003e PART II. WIDER HORIZONS: DECENTERING THE NATIONALISTIC NARRATIVE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. British Union and American Revolution: Imperial Authoritye and the Multinational State\u003cbr\u003e -Ned C. Landsman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Revisiting the Bishop Controversy\u003cbr\u003e -Katherine CartÉ Engel\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Empire's Vital Extremities: British Africa and the Coming of the American Revolution\u003cbr\u003e -Bryan Rosenblithe\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Great Awakening, Presbyterian Education, and the Mobilization of Power in the Revolutionary Mid- Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e -Mark Boonshoft\u003cbr\u003e PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. \"This Is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man\": Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan's Campaign\u003cbr\u003e -Zara Anishanslin\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Environmental History and the War of Independence: Saltpeter and the Continental Army's Shortage of Gunpowder\u003cbr\u003e -David C. Hsiung\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. The Problem of Order and the Transfer of Slave Property in the Revolutionary South\u003cbr\u003e -Matthew Spooner\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. LEGACIES: THE AFTERLIFE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. The United States and the Transformation of Transatlantic Migration During the Age of Revolution and Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e -Aaron Spencer Fogleman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. First Partition: The Troubled Origins of the Mason-Dixon Line\u003cbr\u003e -Edward G. Gray\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. The Power to Be Reborn\u003cbr\u003e -David S. Shields\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Beyond the Rebirth of the Revolution: Coming to Terms with Coming of Age\u003cbr\u003e -Michael Zuckerman\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607699583256,"sku":"9780812248463","price":47.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-american-revolution-reborn-hardback-9780812248463","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}