The Freedoms We Lost

by Smith, Barbara Clark

• ISBN13: 9781595581808
• ISBN10: 1595581804
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-30
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

An ambitious historical analysis of the American Revolution, which re-interprets the gains and losses experienced by ordinary people and challenges the easy narrative that subsumes the growth of 'freedom' into the story of the American nation. Esteemed historian Barbara Clark Smith proposes that many ordinary Americans were in fact more free on the eve of the revolution than they were two decades later. Barbara Clark Smith is the curator of social history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Author Biography

Barbara Clark Smith is the curator of social history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Her publications include After the Revolution and “Revolution in Boston,” a handbook for the National Park Service Freedom Trail. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
The Common Ground of Colonial Politics	p. 1
The Commitments They Brought	p. 47
Declarations of Interdependence	p. 86
The Patriot Economy	p. 134
The Freedoms They Lost	p. 183
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 263
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