Was the American Revolution as Bourgeois Revolution?
Author: Allan Kulikoff
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 50
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Author: Allan Kulikoff
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neil Davidson
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1608467325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn abridged edition of the insightful work praised as “an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy” (Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue). Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, recently the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this abridged edition of his magisterial How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Neil Davidson expertly distills his theoretical and historical insights about the nature of revolutions, making them accessible for general readers. Through extensive research and comprehensive analysis, Davidson demonstrates that what’s at stake is far from a stale issue for the history books—understanding that these struggles of the past offer far reaching lessons for today’s radicals.
Author: United States. Bureau of Postsecondary Education
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe birth of the American Republic was indeed a "shot heard round the world." Not only was it of major international significance a:t the time, but it remains an event of continuing interest and influence in the contemporary world. It is therefore not surprising that the American Revolution is included in the curriculum of the school systems of most nations. This set of selections from the history texts of 13 of these nations is not the first nor will it be the last effort by educators to gather the curricular perceptions of other countries about key events or periods in American history. Indeed, as the appendix reveals, the Office of Education published its first report more than 80 years ago on how the American Revolutionary War was taught in the schools of other nations. The particular merit of the present compilation is that it provides American teachers with valuable contemporary source material not otherwise readily available for teaching about the American Revolution, especially during the period of the Bicentennial Celebration. Teachers interested in inquiry learning, a comparative approach to history, and/or international understanding can utilize the collection in a variety of ways to help students develop their analytical skills and broaden their understanding of American history and of factors which contribute to intercultural communication.
Author: Sergius Yakobson
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William H. Sewell (Jr.)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780822315384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers--educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought--and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014-04-18
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1479808725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
Author: J. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-12-20
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 023011556X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 0691195935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event--and that it didn't end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the revolution's international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas--including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty--helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context."--
Author: Ernest Untermann
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Athan Billias
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
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