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Patrick Spero is Librarian and Director at the American Philosophical Society Library. He is author of Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Michael Zuckerman is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
List of contents
Introduction. Origins
—Patrick Spero
PART I. CIVIL WARS: CHALLENGING THE PATRIOTIC NARRATIVE
Chapter 1. War Stories: Remembering and Forgetting the American Revolution
—Michael A. McDonnell
Chapter 2. The Intimacies of Occupation: Loyalties, Compromise, and Betrayal in Revolutionary-Era Newport
—Travis Glasson
Chapter 3. Uncommon Cause: The Challenges of Disaffection in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
—Aaron Sullivan
Chapter 4. Loyalism, Citizenship, American Identity: The Shoemaker Family
—Kimberly Nath
Chapter 5. "Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren": Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War
—Denver Brunsman
PART II. WIDER HORIZONS: DECENTERING THE NATIONALISTIC NARRATIVE
Chapter 6. British Union and American Revolution: Imperial Authoritye and the Multinational State
—Ned C. Landsman
Chapter 7. Revisiting the Bishop Controversy
—Katherine Carté Engel
Chapter 8. Empire's Vital Extremities: British Africa and the Coming of the American Revolution
—Bryan Rosenblithe
Chapter 9. The Great Awakening, Presbyterian Education, and the Mobilization of Power in the Revolutionary Mid- Atlantic
—Mark Boonshoft
PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS
Chapter 10. "This Is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man": Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan's Campaign
—Zara Anishanslin
Chapter 11. Environmental History and the War of Independence: Saltpeter and the Continental Army's Shortage of Gunpowder
—David C. Hsiung
Chapter 12. The Problem of Order and the Transfer of Slave Property in the Revolutionary South
—Matthew Spooner
PART IV. LEGACIES: THE AFTERLIFE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Chapter 13. The United States and the Transformation of Transatlantic Migration During the Age of Revolution and Emancipation
—Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Chapter 14. First Partition: The Troubled Origins of the Mason-Dixon Line
—Edward G. Gray
Chapter 15. The Power to Be Reborn
—David S. Shields
Conclusion. Beyond the Rebirth of the Revolution: Coming to Terms with Coming of Age
—Michael Zuckerman
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Edited by Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman
Summary
The American Revolution Reborn parts company with the American Revolution of our popular imagination and renders it as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution.
