Past and prologue : politics and memory in the American Revolution
2020
973.3 H366 2020
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Title
Past and prologue : politics and memory in the American Revolution
Variant Title
Politics and memory in the American Revolution
Published
New Haven Yale University Press 2020
Description
xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
973.3 H366 2020
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1205590930
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-299) and index.
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain. 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 ...--Book jacket.
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How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain. 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 ...--Book jacket.
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