Breen T. H.
Breen T. H. - American Insurgents American Patriots The Revolution Of The People - Paperback
Breen T. H. - American Insurgents American Patriots The Revolution Of The People - Paperback
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Description: Before there could be a revolution there was a rebellion; before patriots there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans most of them members of farm families living in small communities were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice kill and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents restores their primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents American Patriots is the stunning account of the insurgency that led to the nation's founding.
Title: American Insurgents American Patriots The Revolution Of The People
Author(s): Breen T. H.
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780809024797
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/10/2011
Category: History Of The Americas
Description: Before there could be a revolution there was a rebellion; before patriots there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans most of them members of farm families living in small communities were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice kill and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents restores their primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents American Patriots is the stunning account of the insurgency that led to the nation's founding.
Title: American Insurgents American Patriots The Revolution Of The People
Author(s): Breen T. H.
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780809024797
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/10/2011
Category: History Of The Americas
