COUNTRYMAN : The American Revolution (ajánló)
"A fine synthesis of recent scholarship on the American Revolution, the only one I know of that integrates the new research on social groups with the work that has been done on political and ideological issues. Gracefully written, Countryman's The American Revolution will fill a real need for a sophisticated book on the Revolution."
—Joyce Appleby, UCLA
"The library shelves groan with books on the American Revolution. Yet this brief, highly synthesized account is the first to offer a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety of social groups – ordinary farmers and artisans as well as merchants and lawyers, women as well as men, blacks as well as whites – and how, in turn, these groups were transformed by the Revolutionary experience."
—Gary B. Nash, UCLA
"With skill, style, and sensitivity, Edward Countryman has written a concise account of the Revolution that uses the insights of the new social history to illuminate the meaning of that supremely political event. He successfully links the crowd actions of the 1760s to the political debates of the 1770s and 1780s and demonstrates the thematic unities of the Revolutionary period."
—Mary Beth Norton, Cornell
"This is an important book. As a synthesis of modern scholarship on the Revolution, it has no rival, and it is much more than that. I admire the clarity and grace with which Countryman demonstrates how the changes of the Revolutionary era went beyond institutions, affecting the lives of all Americans, indeed transforming the character of American life and culture. Certainly the book leaves no doubt as to the way our understanding of the Revolution has been transformed over the past generation. I can think of no work I would recommend with greater enthusiasm to readers seeking a brief but solid, readable, and up-to-date introduction to that wonderfully complex and important event."
—Pauline Maier, MIT
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