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Book Chapter
Philip Freneau
2017
Overview
The cessation of hostilities and independence initiated a decisive new point of departure in the socioeconomic development of the original thirteen colonies of British North America. J. Franklin Jameson, a pioneer historian in the sociological interpretation of the American Revolution, wrote in 1925 of the “transforming hand” of this event, which he saw as constituting a great leap toward “the America we know.”¹ More recently historians of different schools of thought have insisted on the Revolution’s role as a trigger in the unfolding of capitalist modernity by removing some of the traditional constraints that persisted in both economic structures and
