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Title:

The Transforming hand of revolution : reconsidering the American Revolution as a social movement / edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert.

Publisher:

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia,

Copyright Date:

1996, c1995

Description:

x, 517 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Hoffman, Ronald, 1941-
Albert, Peter J.
United States Capitol Historical Society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

John Franklin Jameson and the creation of The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement / Morey Rothberg -- Social visions of the American resistance movement / barbara Clark Smith -- Was the American revolution a bougeois revolution? / Allan Kulikoff -- Lessons in humility: the revolutionary transformation of the governing elite of Charles county, Maryland / Jean B. Lee -- Chesapeake artisans in the aftermath of the revolution / Jean B. Russo -- A motley crew of rebels: sailors, slaves, and the coming of the American revolution / Marcus Rediker.
Runaway slaves in the mid-atlantic region during the revolutionary era / Billy G. Smith -- "To man their rights": the frontier revolution -- "Yet the old republicans still persevere": Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and the crisis of popular leadership in revolutionary Massachusetts, 1775-1790 / gregory H. Nobles -- White hats and hemlocks: Daniel Shays and the legacy of the revolution / Robert A. Gross -- American historians confront "the transforming hand of revolution" / Alfred F. Young.

Series:

Perspectives on the American Revolution

ISBN:

9780813915616 (alk. paper)
0813915619 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)32590274

LCCN:

95020320

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)