The Cambridge History of the American Revolution: Volume 1, Revolutionary Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-59646-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: The Cambridge History of the American Revolution

The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmental and economic structures, native peoples, colonial settlers, and their interactions set the parameters for revolutionary conflict. Focusing on the thirteen colonies, -particularly groups who are traditionally overlooked- the essays shed light on the specific milieus in which the Revolution took place, examining and reinterpreting the iconic events leading up to independence and war. A mixture of broad topical essays and short innovative “viewpoints”, together the essays question notions of American exceptionalism while emphasizing both change and continuity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kars, Marjoleine

McDonnell, Michael A

Schocket, Andrew M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and maps; List of contributors to volume I; Acknowledgements; General Introduction; Part I. Global: 1. Viewpoint: Ceci N'est Pas un Tableau d'Histoire: the art of revolution in the service of empire Christian Crouch; 2. British America Trevor Burnard; 3. Imperial reforms Jonathan Eacott; 4. Seven years' war Kristie Flannery; 5. Transatlantic unrest Steven Pitt; 6. Slaveries Brett Rushforth; Part II. Continental: 7. Viewpoint: the dying negro, a poem Terri L. Snyder; 8. Environments Natale Zappia; 9. Native Americans Robert Michael Morrissey; 10. Settler colonialism David Kiel; 11. Economies Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor; 12. Households Karin Wulf; Part III. Colonial: 13. Viewpoint: the blackout and the enlightenment: forced literacy before the revolution Peter H. Wood; 14. Religion John Sensbach; 15. Protest Gregory Nobles; 16. Rural Life Thomas J. Humphrey; 17. Communications Joseph M. Adelman; 18. Consumer revolution Timothy J. Shannon; 19. Contesting slavery Nicole Saffold Maskiell; 20. Viewpoint: slave courts in pre-revolution Maryland Geneva Smith; Part IV. Coming of the Revolution: 21. Viewpoint: the view from Cape Coast, Ghana Rebecca Shumway; 22. Empire and Protest Serena Zabin; 23. Urban America Emma Hart; 24. Political thought Brendan McConville; 25. Emotion and sensibility Nicole Eustace; 26. Legalities Richard J. Ross and Steven Wilf; 27. Material culture Kathryn K. Lasdow; 28. Viewpoint: black children's pursuit of liberty before America's pursuit of independence Crystal Lynn Webster.

Über Autor(innen)

Schocket, Andrew M
Andrew M. Schocket is Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia (2007) and Fighting over Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution (2015). He is co-director of the Magazine of Early American Datasets.

Kars, Marjoleine
Marjoleine Kars is a Senior Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (2003) and Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (2022). Her work has won numerous prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

McDonnell, Michael A
Michael A. McDonnell is Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (2024) and The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (2012). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH).