The reinterpretation of the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / edited with an introd. by Jack P. Greene.
| Author/creator | Greene, Jack P. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Harper & Row, [1968] |
| Description | ix, 626 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. Introduction -- The reappraisal of the American Revolution in recent historical literature -- Part II. Background -- The external relationship -- British mercantilism and the economic development of the thirteen colonies / Curtis P. Netter -- The role of the lower Houses of Assembly in eighteenth-century politics / Jack P. Greene -- The intellectual framework -- Two conceptions of empire / Richard Koebner -- Democracy and the American Revolution : a frame of reference / Richard Buel, Jr. -- Part III. Challenge from Without -- From grievances to principles -- Colonial ideas of parliamentary power, 1764-1766 / Edmund S. Morgan -- "Rights imply equality" : the case against Admiralty jurisdiction in America, 1764-1766 / David S. Lovejoy -- From anxieties to disaffection -- The logic of rebellion / Bernard Bailyn -- The Puritan ethic and the coming of the American Revolution / Edmund S. Morgan -- The moral and psychological roots of American resistance / Perry Miller -- Part IV. Transformation -- The revolution in ideals -- Political experience and Enlightenment ideas in eighteenth-century America / Bernard Bailyn -- Republicanism and radicalism in the American Revolution : an old-fashioned interpretation / Cecelia M. Kenyon -- The Revolution in practice -- Government by the people : the American Revolution and the democratization of the legislatures / Jackson Turner Main -- The American Revolution : the people as constituent power / R.R. Palmer -- Part V. Between Fear and Hope -- The forces in contention -- The Anti-Federalists, 1781-1789 / Forrest McDonald -- The founding fathers : young men of the Revolution / Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick -- The specter of failure -- Experience must be our only guide : history, democratic theory, and the United States Constitution / Douglass G. Adair -- Shays's Rebellion : a political interpretation / J.R. Pole -- Part VI. The Triumph of Hope -- From problems to solutions -- The founding fathers : a reform caucus in action / John P. Roche -- The theory of human nature in the American Constitution and the method of counterpoise / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- That politics may be reduced to a science : David Hume, James Madison, and the tenth Federalist / Douglass G. Adair -- The nature of debate -- Democracy and The Federalist : a reconsideration of the framers' intents / Martin Diamond -- Men of little faith : the Anti-Federalists on the nature of representative government / Cecelia M. Kenyon -- Part VII. Achievements and Perspectives -- The American Revolution considered as an intellectual movement / Edmund S. Morgan -- Constitutio libertatis / Hannah Arendt. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 611. |
| LCCN | 68023226 |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | E210.G7 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |