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United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts--the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others discuss the popular ideology of the American Revolution as expressed in songs and almanacs, while several revisit revolutionary era statesmen George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and loyalist Peter Oliver. Interpretive essays argue that revolutionary economic thought turned smuggling from a vice into the natural law of free trade; and that focusing on the Civil War and the years 1861 to 1865, leads to a glorified conception of the national past that is better understood as shaped by An Era of Racial Violence that extended from 1854 to at least 1877. Pencak's essays do not conform to standard interpretations of the revolutionary era that stress the importance of republican ideology or socio-economic conflict. Rather, he looks at colonial experiences of the French and Indian War as definitive in shaping dislike of Britain. He stresses that the popular thought expressed in songs and almanacs portray America as an open society, a land of plenty, threatened by British restrictions rather than a land where ancient Roman virtue or traditional British liberties flourished. Moving to the early republic, Pencak looks at Shays's Rebellion from the point of view of those who suppressed it, and finds that they were genuinely concerned that Massachusetts's newly-formed republic was threatened by westerners. Westerners who presented themselves as an army and sought to restructure a constitution formed only six years before. George Washington was, in effect, the chief executive of the new nation from 1775 to 1797 and borrowed heavily from his wartime experiences to shape his presidency.
About the Author: William Pencak is professor of history and Jewish studies at Penn State University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781611460834
  • Publisher: Lehigh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Lehigh University Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 797 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1611460832
  • Publisher Date: 09 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 382
  • Series Title: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
  • Sub Title: Essays in American History
  • Width: 157 mm


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