The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution As a Social Movement (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

A collection of 11 essays celebrating the 100th anniversary of J. Franklin Jameson's scholarship on the nature of the Revolutionary era in American history. Contributors look at Jameson's career within the context of the professional and cultural currents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the evolution of his ideas on the Revolution; the social and gendered dimensions of the pre-Revolutionary period; and the impact of the Revolutionary experience in Maryland. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.