Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p)
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5 b-w illus
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300256055
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- PART I . Colonial History Culture in British America, 1730–1776 -- Chapter One. History Culture in Pre-Revolutionary British America -- Chapter Two. The Colonial Past in the Imperial Crisis -- Chapter Three. The British Past in the Imperial Crisis -- Interlude. Natural Law, Independence, and Revolutionary History Culture, 1772–1776 -- PART II . National History Culture in the Early Republic, 1776–1812 -- Chapter Four. The Expansion of Early National History Culture -- Chapter Five. The Colonial Past in the Early Republic -- Chapter Six. Creating a Deep Past for a New Nation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Inhalt:
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain 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. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation
Anmerkung:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.12987/9780300256055
