The American Revolution Reborn / / ed. by Patrick Spero, Michael Zuckerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Anishanslin, Zara,; Boonshoft, Mark,; Brunsman, Denver,; Engel, Katherine Carté,; Fogleman, Aaron Spencer,; Glasson, Travis,; Gray, Edward G.,; Hsiung, David C.,; Landsman, Ned C.,; McDonnell, Michael A.,; Nath, Kimberly,; Rosenblithe, Bryan,; Shields, David S.,; Spooner, Matthew,; Sullivan, Aaron,; Zuckerman, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Spero, Patrick,; Zuckerman, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 5 illus.

The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more complex matter, filled with uncertainty, fear, and discord. In The American Revolution Reborn, editors Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman compile essays from a new generation of multidisciplinary scholars that render the American Revolution as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. The American Revolution Reborn parts company with the Revolution of our popular imagination and diverges from the work done by historians of the era from the past half-century. In the first section, "Civil Wars," contributors rethink the heroic terms of Revolutionary-era allegiance and refute the idea of patriotic consensus. In the following section, "Wider Horizons," essayists destabilize the historiographical inevitability of America as a nation. The studies gathered in the third section, "New Directions," present new possibilities for scholarship on the American Revolution. And the last section, titled "Legacies," collects essays that deal with the long afterlife of the Revolution and its effects on immigration, geography, and international politics. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Origins -- Part I. Civil Wars: Challenging the Patriotic Narrative -- Chapter 1. War Stories: Remembering and Forgetting the American Revolution -- Chapter 2. The Intimacies of Occupation: Loyalties, Compromise, and Betrayal in Revolutionary-Era Newport -- Chapter 3. Uncommon Cause: The Challenges of Disaffection in Revolutionary Pennsylvania -- Chapter 4. Loyalism, Citizenship, American Identity: The Shoemaker Family -- Chapter 5. “Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren”: Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War -- Part II. Wider Horizons: Decentering the Nationalistic Narrative -- Chapter 6. British Union and American Revolution: Imperial Authority and the Multinational State -- Chapter 7. Revisiting the Bishop Controversy -- Chapter 8. Empire’s Vital Extremities: British Africa and the Coming of the American Revolution -- Chapter 9. The Great Awakening, Presbyterian Education, and the Mobilization of Power in the Revolutionary Mid- Atlantic -- Part III. New Directions -- Chapter 10. “This Is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man”: Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign -- Chapter 11. Environmental History and the War of Independence: Saltpeter and the Continental Army’s Shortage of Gunpowder -- Chapter 12. The Problem of Order and the Transfer of Slave Property in the Revolutionary South -- Part IV. Legacies: The Afterlife of the American Revolution -- Chapter 13. The United States and the Transformation of Transatlantic Migration During the Age of Revolution and Emancipation -- Chapter 14. First Partition: The Troubled Origins of the Mason-Dixon Line -- Chapter 15. The Power to Be Reborn -- Conclusion. Beyond the Rebirth of the Revolution: Coming to Terms with Coming of Age -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments