American insurgents, American patriots : the revolution of the people /
Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging decades of received wisdom, T.H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans-- most of them members of farm families living in small communities-- were drawn into...
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the revolutionary world of Matthew Patten
- The face of colonial society
- Ghost stories in a time of political crisis
- Revenge of the countryside
- Reaching out to others
- The power of rumor : the day the British destroyed Boston
- The association : the second stage of insurgency
- Schools of revolution
- Insurgents in power
- An appeal to heaven : religion and rights
- Endgames of empire.