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Introduction | p. 1 |
American Historians Confront "The Transforming Hand of Revolution" | p. 13 |
Introduction | p. 13 |
J. Franklin Jameson | p. 16 |
The Jameson Thesis: The Text | p. 16 |
The Jameson Thesis: The Context | p. 19 |
Jameson's Achievement | p. 19 |
Progressives and Counter-Progressives | p. 33 |
The Progressive Historians | p. 33 |
The Counter-Progressives: Part 1 | p. 47 |
Against the Grain | |
The Counter-Progressives: Part 2 | p. 65 |
New Left, New Social History | p. 75 |
The New Left | p. 75 |
The New Social History | p. 89 |
Explorations: New Left, New Social, New Progressive | p. 96 |
Synthesis | p. 101 |
The Transformation of Early American History | p. 101 |
Toward a New Synthesis? | p. 114 |
Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution | p. 135 |
Introduction | p. 135 |
Refocusing on the Founders | p. 137 |
Twenty-first-Century "Founders Chic" | p. 137 |
The Elite Critique of Social History | p. 141 |
Redefining Freedom in the Revolution | p. 144 |
The Contradiction of Slavery | p. 144 |
The Revolution of the Enslaved | p. 146 |
Emancipation's Fate in the Revolutionary Era | p. 152 |
The Founders' Failures on Slavery | p. 156 |
Facing the Revolution from Indian Country | p. 172 |
Native American Perspectives on Euro-American Struggles | p. 172 |
Eighteenth-Century American Empires | p. 181 |
Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution | p. 192 |
The Roots and Resurgence of Class Analysis | p. 192 |
The Urban Context of Class | p. 196 |
Class in the Countryside | p. 208 |
Writing Women into the Revolution | p. 224 |
Energy and Innovation since 1980 | p. 224 |
New Approaches to Elite Women's Lives | p. 230 |
The Historical Recovery of Ordinary Women's Lives | p. 235 |
Women in the Post-Revolutionary Public Sphere | p. 246 |
Afterword | p. 257 |
Acknowledgments | p. 265 |
Index | p. 267 |
About the Authors | p. 287 |
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