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Rethinking America : from empire to republic
\"This volume brings together Murrin's seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, these essays rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, and the myriad ways that the American Revolution produced a profoundly transformative change in those who lived through it. They reconsider questions that have shaped the field for several generations and connect those questions to issues of central interest to historians working today. The essays gathered here argue that the great historiographical schools that have long competed to explain the American Revolution must move towards a synthesis. The essays show how high politics and the study of constitutional and ideological questions--broadly the history of elites--must be considered in close conjunction with issues of economic inequality, class conflict, and racial division. By bringing together a variety of perspectives in both Britain and the North American colonies, Rethinking America explains why what began as constitutional argument that virtually all expected would remain contained within the British Empire exploded into a truly subversive and radical revolution that destroyed monarchy and aristocracy and replaced it with a rapidly transforming and wildly pulsing republic. The essays examining the period of the early American Republic discuss why the Founders' assumptions about what their Revolution would produce were profoundly different than the society that emerged. In many ways, the American Revolution put the new United States on a path to a violent and bloody civil war. A much anticipated work, this volume offers groundbreaking and timeless analysis of the nation's critical first decades as it moved from empire to republic\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Anglicizing America
The thirteen mainland colonies of early America were arguably never more British than on the eve of their War of Independence from Britain. Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies, religious systems, and engagements with the empire. At the same time and by the same process, these politically distinct and geographically distant colonies forged a shared cultural identityone that would bind them together as a nation during the Revolution.
Anglicizing Americarevisits the theory of Anglicization, considering its application to the history of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution. Ten essays by senior historians trace the complex processes by which global forces, local economies, and individual motives interacted to reinforce a more centralized and unified social movement. They examine the ways English ideas about labor influenced plantation slavery, how Great Britain's imperial aspirations shaped American militarization, the influence of religious tolerance on political unity, and how Americans' relationship to Great Britain after the war impacted the early republic's naval and taxation policies. As a whole,Anglicizing Americaoffers a compelling framework for explaining the complex processes at work in the western hemisphere during the age of revolutions.
Contributors: Denver Brunsman, William Howard Carter, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Anthony M. Joseph, Simon P. Newman, Geoffrey Plank, Nancy L. Rhoden, Andrew Shankman, David J. Silverman, Jeremy A. Stern.
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England and Colonial America
The American people, everyone now agrees, are a nation. But we are more than a little perplexed about how and when it happened. Although about 170,000 Englishmen crossed the Atlantic to the mainland colonies before 1700, nowhere did they create a society that can accurately be described as just “an English world in America.” Traversing the ocean did generate startling changes almost immediately. But if the wilderness itself had been the major active agent in these transformations, we would expect all the intruders to have been affected in similar ways. They were not. A more significant force was the sheer
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The Jeffersonian Triumph and American Exceptionalism
The Jeffersonians' main weapon in their quest to destroy an incipient (Federalist) ruling class, would be the ordinary citizens of the Republic. In their hands even the word \"American\" became powerful ammunition as they forced their opponents to use the term to describe them.
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In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Slave, Maybe There Was Room Even for Deference
Murrin discusses the issues of dependency and deference in early American history as expressed by Aaron Fogleman and Michael Zuckerman in their essays on the American Revolution.
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Religion and American politics : from the colonial period to the present
How do religion and politics interact in America? How has that relationship changed over time? Why have American religious and political thought sometimes developed along a parallel course while at other times they have moved in opposite directions? These are among the many questions addressed in this volume. Originally published in 1990 as Religion and American Politics: From The Colonial Period to the 1980s, this book offers a survey of the relationship between religion and politics in America. It features scholars including Richard Carwardine, Nathan Hatch, Daniel Walker Howe, George Marsden, Martin Marty, Harry Stout, John Wilson, Robert Wuthnow, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Since its publication, the influence of religion on American politics—and, therefore, interest in the topic—has grown exponentially. For this new edition, the editors offer a completely new introduction, and have also commissioned several new pieces, eliminating those that are now out of date. The resulting book offers a historically grounded approach to one of the most divisive issues of our time.
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Murrin reviews \"American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence\" by Pauline Maier.
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Ruling America
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Dilemmas of Ruling Elites in Revolutionary America -- 2 The \"Slave Power\" in the United States, 1783-1865 -- 3 Merchants and Manufacturers in the Antebellum North -- 4 Gilded Age Gospels -- 5 The Abortive Rule of Big Money -- 6 The Managerial Revitalization of the Rich -- 7 The Foreign Policy Establishment -- 8 Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal -- Coda: Democracy in America -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.
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