Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution

ISBN: 9780814796863 出版年：2006 页码： Alfred F Young New York University Press

ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Why Write the History of Ordinary People? Part I. The People Out of DoorsThe Mechanics of the Revolution: "By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand" "Persons of Consequence": The Women of Boston and the Making of the American RevolutionTar and Feathers and the Ghost of Oliver Cromwell: English Plebeian Culture and American Radicalism Part II. AccommodationsConservatives, the Constitution, and the "Genius of the People" How Radical Was the American Revolution? Part III. Memory: Lost and FoundThe Celebration and Damnation of Thomas PaineThe Freedom Trail: Walking the Revolution in Boston Liberty Tree: Made in America, Lost in America Index About the Author