The challenge of the American Revolution
By: by Edmund S. Morgan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393056037
Subjects: History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial ideas of Parliamentary power, 1764-1766; title: Revisions in need of revising; title: The revolution considered as an intellectual movement; title: The Puritan ethic and the American revolution; title: Slavery and freedom: the American paradox; title: Conflict and consensus; title: Challenge and resonse: reflcections on the bicentennial.