American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People - Hardcover

Breen, T. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809075881 ISBN 13: 9780809075881

Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

This is a story of rumour, charity, vengeance, and restraint. "American Insurgents, American Patriots" reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception. 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 tells the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to America's road to 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 their insurgency, without which there would have been no independent republic as we know it.

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About the Author

T. H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. The author of several works of history, Breen has also written forThe New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, andThe New York Times Book Review. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0809075881
• ISBN 13: 9780809075881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384