Title: The challenge of the American Revolution /
Authors: Morgan, Edmund S. 1916-
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1976
Subjects: United States History
Abstract: Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution's abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a national consciousness.
Contents: Colonial ideas of Parliamentary power, 1764-1766 -- Revisions in need of revising -- The revolution considered as an intellectual movement -- The Puritan ethic and the American revolution -- Slavery and freedom: the American paradox -- Conflict and consensus -- Challenge and response: reflections on the bicentennial.