The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement / John Franklin Jameson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, John Franklin, author.

Contributor:

Tolles, Frederick B., Contributor.

Series:

ACLS Centennial Series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written when political and military history dominated the discipline, J. Franklin Jameson's The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was a pioneering work. Based on a series of four lectures he gave at Princeton University in 1925, the short book argued that the most salient feature of the American Revolution had not been the war for independence from Great Britain; it was, rather, the struggle between aristocratic values and those of the common people who tended toward a leveling democracy. American revolutionaries sought to change their government, not their society, but in destroying monarchy and establishing republics, they in fact changed their society profoundly. Jameson wrote, "The stream of revolution, once started, could not be conned within narrow banks, but spread abroad upon the land.? Jameson's book was among the first to bring social analysis to the fore of American history. Examining the effects the American Revolution had on business, intellectual and religious life, slavery, land ownership, and interactions between members of different social classes, Jameson showed the extent of the social reforms won at home during the war. By looking beyond the political and probing the social aspects of this seminal event, Jameson forced a reexamination of revolution as a social phenomenon and, as one reviewer put it, injected a "liberal spirit" into the study of American history. Still in print after nearly eighty years, the book is a classic of American historiography.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION / Tolles, Frederick B.

I. The Revolution and the Status of Persons

II. The Revolution and the Land

III. Industry and Commerce

IV. Thought and Feeling

Index

Notes:

Master microform held by: DLC.

Call number of original: E209.J33.

"Lectures delivered on November 1925 on the Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873227

1400873223

OCLC:

563715685