UID:
almahu_9949494649402882
Format:
1 online resource (328 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780300256055 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Yale scholarship online
Content:
In 'Past and Prologue', Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as 'American history'. This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past - as many historians have argued - the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780300234961
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
