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Revolutionary founders : rebels, radicals, and reformers in the making of the nation / edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael

Published:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators:
Young, Alfred F., 1925-2012, Nash, Gary B., and Raphael, Ray

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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Revolutions -- One.Ebenezer Mackintosh: Boston's Captain General of the Liberty Tree / Alfred F. Young -- Two.Blacksmith Timothy Bigelow and the Massachusetts Revolution of 1774 / Ray Raphael -- Three.Samuel Thompson's War: The Career of an American Insurgent / T. H. Breen -- Four.Philadelphia's Radical Caucus That Propelled Pennsylvania to Independence and Democracy / Gary B. Nash -- Five.A World of Paine / Fill Lepore -- Six.Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Challenged the American Revolutionaries / David Waldstreicher -- pt. II Wars -- Seven."Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings": The Betrayals of Private Joseph Plumb Martin, Continental Soldier / Philip Mead -- Eight."The Spirit of Levelling": James Cleveland, Edward Wright, and the Militiamen's Struggle for Equality in Revolutionary Virginia / Michael A. McDonnell -- Nine.Mary Perth, Harry Washington, and Moses Wilkinson: Black Methodists Who Escaped from Slavery and Founded a Nation / Cassandra Pybus -- Ten.James Ireland, John Leland, John "Swearing Jack" Waller, and the Baptist Campaign for Religious Freedom in Revolutionary Virginia / Jon Butler -- Eleven.Declaring Independence and Rebuilding a Nation: Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga Revolution / Colin G. Calloway -- Twelve.Forgotten Heroes of the Revolution: Han Yerry and Tyona Doxtader of the Oneida Indian Nation / James Kirby Martin -- pt. III The Promise of the Revolution -- Thirteen."Satan, Smith, Shattuck, and Shays": The People's Leaders in the Massachusetts Regulation of 1786 / Gregory Nobles -- Fourteen.William Findley, David Bradford, and the Pennsylvania Regulation of 1794 / Terry Bouton -- Fifteen.The New Jerusalem: Herman Husband's Egalitarian Alternative to the United States Constitution / Wythe Holt -- Sixteen.The Battle Against Patriarchy That Abigail Adams Won / Woody Holton -- Seventeen.America's Mary Wollstonecraft: Judith Sargent Murray's Case for the Equal Rights of Women / Sheila Skemp -- Eighteen.Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Daniel Coker: Revolutionary Black Founders, Revolutionary Black Communities / Richard S. Newman -- Nineteen.Richard and Judith Randolph, St. George Tucker, George Wythe, Syphax Brown, and Hercules White: Racial Equality and the Snares of Prejudice / Melvin Patrick Ely -- Twenty."Every Man Should Have Property": Robert Coram and the American Revolution's Legacy of Economic Populism / Seth Cotlar -- Twenty-One.Thomas Greenleaf: Printers and the Struggle for Democratic Politics and Freedom of the Press / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Twenty-Two.The Plough-Jogger: Jedediah Peck and the Democratic Revolution / Alan Taylor.
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ISBN:
9780307271105
0307271102
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition:
Dubois copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
Endowment Note:
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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