The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
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ISBN: 0670034207 / Publisher: Viking Adult, June 2005
An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution argues that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control.
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Nash (history, U. of California at Los Angeles) explains that the majority of colonists were outside the relatively respectable milieu of the founding fathers, and many came to America or stayed because it afforded room for their decidedly radical views. Revolutionary ferment began decades before a shot was fired, and in fact the Revolution was a civil war as well as a war of independence. He traces the influences of proponents of various ways of thought, including feminism, abolition, and forms of democracy debated in the streets more than in the salons. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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