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 experien...

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